tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364146682018-11-14T07:56:31.255-05:00Prince GeorgianLooking for employment; writing about Prince George's County, Maryland. Politics, Places and PeopleJohn THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.comBlogger259125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-31097499328619384522014-12-26T12:03:00.000-05:002014-12-26T12:03:20.305-05:00The 5 O'Clock Tea. December 28, 1889 - The Evening Star Washington DC<div class="MsoNormal"><b>The 5 O'Clock Tea.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Philadelphia Press.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; From the cup of tea and slice of bread and butter obtained from nurse, the "5 o'clock tea", has grown into a miniature feast, at which sandwiches of all kinds are as popular as the traditional muffin or buttered toast, and the cakes and bonbons to be met with are a perfect revelation in the matter of confectionery.&nbsp; Perhaps, therefore, a few hints where to obtain some novel, or, at any rate, extremely dainty addenda for this repast may not be unwelcome.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To begin with sandwiches, these are of all kinds, the great requisite being extreme daintiness both to sight and taste, though this is so well understood that it is almost needless to insist on it.&nbsp; The usual sandwiches are nice little slices of brown or white bread and butter, spread with carefully potted game or fish: fillets of anchovy, washed and boned; sardines filleted and carefully wiped free of any oil; ham, lobster, anchovy, groen or watercress butters, or, last, but not least, caviare [sic] (especially the large grain sort), imported direct and fresh from Astrakhan), delicately seasoned with lemon juice, and to conclude, <i>pate de foie gras</i>.&nbsp; The slices are covered with corresponding slices, carefully buttered, then pressed firmly together, cut into shapes with pastry cutters (round, oval, &amp;c.), dished <i>en couronne</i>, and garnished with watercress round, or each sandwich brushed lightly with a little butter and sprinkled with very finely chopped parsley, truffle, lobster coral or hard-boiled yoke of egg pressed through a sieve.&nbsp; Another way of serving them is when the slices are spread to curl them round as you would roll a cigarette, giving a light press just at the last to keep them in shape.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Another delicious little savory treat we owe to Russia, where it is called <i>Blini au caviar</i>, it is made as follows: Toast some perfectly fresh crumpets on both sides, and when lightly colored butter one side profusely (as buttered toast is treated) and spread this again with caviare [sic], adding a squeeze of lemon juice, and serve very hot.<a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/articles/Blog/The%205%20Oclock%20tea%20Dec%201889.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <!--[endif]--> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/articles/Blog/The%205%20Oclock%20tea%20Dec%201889.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> The Evening Star. 12-28-1889. Page: 7. Washington (DC), District of Columbia.</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal">Transcribed by John Peter Thompson. 26 December 2014.e: 7. Washington (DC), District of Columbia</div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-79929475029785839152014-11-30T13:23:00.000-05:002014-11-30T16:29:24.019-05:00"LYNCHING OF A FIREBUG" The Evening Star, December 3, 1889<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://slavery.msa.maryland.gov/bowie/maps/pg_atlas_1878_12_original.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://slavery.msa.maryland.gov/bowie/maps/pg_atlas_1878_12_original.jpg" height="258" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Atlas of Fifteen Miles Around Washington Including the County of Prince George Maryland. (Hopkins,1878)<br /><a href="http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/33000" style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; line-height: 15.8599996566772px; text-align: left;">http://jhir.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/33000</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large;">LYNCHING OF A FIREBUG.</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>—</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Joe Vermillion Strung Up at upper Marlboro'.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>—</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>LONG STORY OF A NEIGHBORHOOD FEUD.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>—</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Special Dispatch to T<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">HE</span> E<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">VENING</span>S<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">TAR</span>.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; U<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">PPER</span> M<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">ARLBORO'</span>, Dec. 3. </b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This morning, at half-past 2 o'clock, Judge Lynch visited our town, and although the party he was after (Jos Vermillion) was in the hands of the law, the old-time punishment was meted out without the intervention of the jury[.] &nbsp;Joe Vermillion, a white man, was arrested about ten days ago in the upper part of the county for setting fire to houses and barns, and to others of the same family were also arrested but were subsequently released.&nbsp; &nbsp;Immediately after the arrest threats were heard that Judge Lynch intended to save the state the expense of a trial, but the talk dying out it was thought that the law would be allowed to take its course and the extra precautions taken by the Sheriff were somewhat relaxed.&nbsp; This morning about 2 o'clock there was some commotion in the town when some 40 horsemen, well last, appeared in our streets and surrounded the jail.&nbsp; They were very quiet and orderly and calling to the jailer, Mr. Ridgway, that they had a prisoner, Mr. Ridgway came down from his bed room and opened the gate.&nbsp; The two hiding men at once grabbed the jailer and others covered him with pistols. Mr. Ridgway resisted as best he could, but the iron grip of the men holding him prevented him from getting away, and some of the party sees the keys from him.&nbsp; Some of the party went to Vermillion's cell, where they found him with his leg shackles welded to the floor.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; These were cut by some while others were holding the prisoner, and some were preparing the rope which they placed on his neck, although Vermillion fought them desperately.&nbsp; They then dragged him from the cell and building, but he fought hard for his life, and having secured a piece of glass some of the literatures were cut and scratched by him with it. They took him toward the railroad and reaching the iron bridge on the east of town about 500 yards from the jail threw the rope over a beam, Drew him up and tying the other end left him hanging.&nbsp; </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Preparations are being made for an inquest this morning.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Vermillion was a desperate character was a desperate character and died cursing the mob. Justice would have taken its course, but the due man had threatened the life of many in Queen Anne district. He was one who would have kept his word and this may be assigned as the primal cause. &nbsp;&nbsp; </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>THE CAUSE OF IT.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; On the night of November 22 John Vermillion, who lived near Halls station, Baltimore and Potomac [Rail] road, and was well known to the court officials of Prince George's county, was forcibly taken from his home and tied to a tree.&nbsp; The unknown visitors then removed his furniture and set fire to his log cabin.&nbsp; Fearing bodily harm the man promised to leave the vicinity immediately, whereupon he was released and left for parts unknown.&nbsp; He had several sons. A number of young men living near Hall's and Covington were arrested on November 23 and tried before Justice Ryan, who ordered them released. &nbsp;On Monday, November 25, considerable excitement prevailed near Mulliken's station, on the Baltimore and Potomac road, because of the burning of two large barns and a tenement house, which were fired by incendiaries.&nbsp; These Saturday night before, almost at the same hour, buildings were seen burning in different parts of Queen Anne's district. Thomas Black, who live near Mulliken's station, suffered the greatest loss. In his barn were stored 10,000 pounds of tobacco, and his entire crop of hay and fodder. About 9 o'clock this building lay in ashes.&nbsp; At 925 a barn on the farm of General [John W.} Horn, tenanted by Walter Ryan, the magistrate who acquitted the young men brought before him for assaulting Vermillion, which contained this year's crop, together with farming implements, was seen to be on fire.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>Though every assistance was rendered, it soon succumbed to the flames.&nbsp; A small unoccupied house belonging to James Hamilton was also burned.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>THE WHOLE FAMILY ARRESTED.&nbsp;&nbsp; </b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;On the theory that the buildings were set on fire out of revenge for his decisions and for the treatment of John Vermillion it was determined to arrest the whole family of Vermillions. A tramp, giving his name as William Wright, was also arrested as an accomplice. When arrested he had in his possession a seven-shooter and threatened anyone approaching him.&nbsp; He denied any knowledge of the burning and said he was at the residence of ex-Gov. Bowie when the affair happened. The Vermillion family have taken up their residence near Bennings station and constables have been sent there to arrest the father and a third brother.&nbsp; Much indignation is expressed here, both as to the burning of the Vermillion property and the supposed incendiarism of Saturday night.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Accordingly constables from upper Marlboro' went to the home of the Vermillion's and arrested Edward, John, jr., George, Lloyd and Joseph Vermillion, all grown men and the fathers of large families.&nbsp; Charles Bell, a brother-in-law of the Vermillion's, was also taken into custody.&nbsp; The constables took the six prisoners at the point of revolvers after they had been order to throw up their hands.&nbsp; Joe Vermillion was particularly ugly in his behavior.&nbsp; Before he could consent to accompany the officers he had to be roughly handled.&nbsp; He was an escaped prisoner from the house of correction, who was wanted by the superintendent of that institution to serve the remaining eighteen months' sentence. &nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>JOE MADE ALL THE TROUBLE.</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; John Vermillion, jr., told the officers that his brother Joe was the cause of the trouble.&nbsp; John said that on Saturday night, November 23, about 830 o'clock, Joseph, who had been living in the woods, came to his house and threatened to get even with those who would not give his father justice in the affair of the night before (Friday) when the older Vermillion's house was burned by a band of men, who tied him to a tree and only released them on his promise to leave the neighborhood.&nbsp; Both the father, who was in John's house, and John himself tried to persuade Joe from carrying out the threat, whereupon he left.&nbsp; About 1130 Joe returned to the house and asked to be admitted, carrying in his hand a cold oil can. He told John that he had a little fire of his own . He immediately left and nothing was known of his whereabouts until he was arrested. Bell, the son-in-law, was charged with burning his own house, which he rented from James Hamilton. He denied the charge and said Joe did it after leaving the Barnes. Many thought that Joe would never reach the jail alive, as the excitement prevailing at and about Lincoln's was so great that fears of violence were entertained. John Vermillion, sr.,aged sevebty-three years, the father of the man arrested, was not arrested.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><b>TESTIMONY AGAINST JOE.</b>&nbsp;&nbsp; </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;At a preliminary hearing before Justice Harris, Mr. R. E. Bandt, states attorney, being present, John Vermillion, jr., testified as to the burning of his father's house near Hall's station.&nbsp; Lloyd Vermillion testified that he saw his brother Joe on Saturday afternoon about 4 o'clock with a coal-oil can.&nbsp; Joe stated he was going to burn out Mr. J. T. Clark that night as he had burned one of his houses some two years ago.&nbsp; Mwssrs. J. T. Clark and Walter Ryan testified that they were aroused by the cry of fire and dated the amount of their lost by the burning of their barns Saturday night.&nbsp; Joe Vermillion pleaded not guilty and said he was not in the county at the time.&nbsp; He was sent to jail to await the action of the grand jury and immediately placed in irons after resisting the officers.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; As there was no evidence to implicate anyone else the charge of arson against the other Vermillions was dismissed, but 13 citizens of Mulliken's neighborhood swore out peace warrants against each of the other Vermillion boys, and they were placed in jail in default of [??]00 bail.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.mncppcapps.org/planning/historiccommunitiessurvey/Documentations/PG%2074B-030%20Duvall-Hopkins%20Store%20at%20Hall%20Road/PG%2074B-030%20MIHP%20Duvall-Hopkins%20Store%20at%20Hall%20Road%2002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://www.mncppcapps.org/planning/historiccommunitiessurvey/Documentations/PG%2074B-030%20Duvall-Hopkins%20Store%20at%20Hall%20Road/PG%2074B-030%20MIHP%20Duvall-Hopkins%20Store%20at%20Hall%20Road%2002.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"></div><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><!--[endif]--> <br /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>Col. John W. Horn, Warden, Baltimore Penitentiary.</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: left;">" <span style="background: white; color: #663300; font-size: 11.0pt;">In 1872 Mr.<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><strong style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Enoch Pratt</span></strong><span style="text-align: start;">, a philanthropist of Baltimore City purchased a twelve-hundred (1200) acres of land here as a place to which delinquent colored boys of Baltimore could be sent for rehabilitation. The name given the institution was "</span><strong style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">The House of Reformation for Colored Boys</span></strong><span style="text-align: start;">." It was to be under the control of a Board of Managers and to be conducted by a Superintendent and whatever other personnel as was needed. Among the earliest superintendents was a certain<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><strong style="text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Gen. John W. Horn</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="text-align: start;">&nbsp;</span>who had been connected with the Maryland Penitentiary in Baltimore. The first boys, thirteen in number, were brought down in January 1873. As no buildings had yet been erected, they were housed in what had been a residence of a few preceding years. With the exception of a garden plot and an apple orchard this tract too was woodland or scrub land. Through the years more and more land was cleared and an administration and other brick buildings erected. Some of the personnel were drawn from Baltimore but much employment in the many different lines was given to people of the community both then and throughout the following years. Some of the girls of the neighborhood secured husbands too from this and the Railroad project.</span>" website: Selby Family Tree. <a href="http://www.selbyfamilytree.net/CousinHattie.html">http://www.selbyfamilytree.net/CousinHattie.html </a>&nbsp;</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">The Evening Star.<span class="apple-converted-space"><b>&nbsp;</b></span>12-03-1889;<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><b><span id="citIssue" style="text-align: start;"><nobr>P[</nobr></span></b><nobr>1];<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></nobr><span id="citIssue" style="text-align: start;"><nobr> Washington (DC), District of Columbia</nobr></span>.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">Transcribed by John &nbsp;Peter Thompson, November 30<sup>th</sup>, 2014.</span></div></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p>&nbsp; </o:p></div><div style="text-align: center;">PG 74B-030 MIHP Duvall-Hopkins Store at Hall Road&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: center;">http://www.mncppcapps.org/planning/historiccommunitiessurvey/gallery_viewer.cfm?ID=74B-030&amp;photo=PG%2074B-030%20MIHP%20Duvall-Hopkins%20Store%20at%20Hall%20Road%2002.jpg</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--> <br /><hr align="left" size="1" style="text-align: center;" width="33%" /><!--[endif]--> <br /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 7.5pt;">Transcribed by John &nbsp;Peter Thompson, November 30<sup>th</sup>, 2014.</span></div></div></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-74973176099957549212014-11-23T10:14:00.000-05:002014-11-23T10:14:05.846-05:00Roman punch (Ponche a la romaine) - Recipe from November 1889<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">THE FAMOUS ROMAN PUNCH.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>—<o:p></o:p></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>How a Drink Made Exclusively for the Pope Became General.<o:p></o:p></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;The history of <i>ponche a la romaine</i> is curious. It has been the summer refreshment of successive popes for over 80 years, and their chefs were threatened with all kinds of cars and punishments if they ever divulged secrets of its preparation. When Napoleon invaded Italy in 1796 this terrible interdict was broken through. A son of Pius VI's chief confectioner, by name Molas, as soon as he found the French were conquerors, ran away from his father and united his fortunes with them. The young man became the favorite servant of the Empress Josephine, and after her death became cook to the Russian Prince Lieven [Prince Christoph Heinrich von Lieven (1774–1838)], whom he accompanied to London when that Prince was appointed ambassador to the Court of St. James. This Russian first made this papal beverage in London by introducing it at the Prince's table. The Prince Regent asked for the recipe and permitted copies to be given to a select few of his friends, and by degrees it became better known, and is now well known all over the world.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The original Vatican recipe is:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="margin-left: .5in;">"Prepare a very rich pineapple or sherbet; have it a little part with lemon juice, taking the greatest care that none of the zest or oil from the yellow rind, with the bitterness from the white underlying pith, be allowed to enter into the composition of this sherbet. In order to be certain of this it is better, first, to grate off the yellow rind from the lemons, then to carefully remove all the white pith and to make assurance doubly sure, washed the skin that fruit in clear water; after which press out the juice free from the rind of the fruit; strain the juice so as to remove all the seeds or pips from it; then add to it the pineapple mixture. It must be then very well frozen. This sherbet, being very rich, will not freeze hard, but will be a semi-ice. Just before the punch is to be served add and work into it for every quart of the ice one gill of Jamaica [rum]; and for every two quarts one pint of the best champagne. Never use the wine from damaged bottles or leaky corks, as it will be sure to deprave and perhaps entirely spoil your punch. After you have well incorporated these liquors add cream or meringue mixtures." — &nbsp;Anerucab Analyst.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[endif]--></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br /></div><br /><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <!--[endif]--> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span style="background: white;">The New Haven Evening Register.<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span id="citDate"><nobr> 11-22-1889. <span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></nobr><span id="citIssue"><nobr>page<b>&nbsp;</b></nobr></span><nobr>1. New Haven, Connecticut</nobr></span>.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="background: white;">Transcribed by John Peter Thompson 23<sup>rd </sup>November 2014.</span></div></div></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-39772006458455899292014-11-02T19:14:00.001-05:002014-11-02T19:17:35.331-05:00Seasonable Recipes from Emma Paddock Telford - November 8, 1914, The Sunday Star, Washington, DC<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FR-zDwv7mZA/VFbH6xzFTqI/AAAAAAAAA5M/M83cU6OBSZQ/s1600/Sunday%2Bmenu%2BNov%2B8%2BEvening%2BStar%2B1914%2BEmma%2BPaddock%2BTelford.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FR-zDwv7mZA/VFbH6xzFTqI/AAAAAAAAA5M/M83cU6OBSZQ/s1600/Sunday%2Bmenu%2BNov%2B8%2BEvening%2BStar%2B1914%2BEmma%2BPaddock%2BTelford.jpg" height="400" width="392" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunday Menu<br />November 8th, 2014<br />The Sunday Star<br />Washington, DC</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>SEASONABLE RECIPES&nbsp;<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></b></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>Roast Forequarter of Lamb or Mutton<o:p></o:p></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Take out the shoulder blade, leg and backbones, and any bits of membrane, white with a damp cloth and rub lightly with salt and pepper. &nbsp;Fold into shape and tie securely. Put into a kettle of boiling salted water to cover and skim carefully, as the scum arises. Simmer gently, turning over occasionally until the meat is nearly tender. Drain and place in a baking pan. Dredge with flour, salt and pepper, and bake until brown and crisp, basting frequently with some of the water from the capital and a little tomato.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When the meat is real Brown, remove it to a hot platter and keep hot while the gravy is made. &nbsp;Stir into the fat in the pan two tablespoonfuls of flour, and stir and scrape the glaze from the sides of the pan. When browned add two cups of water from the kettle in which the meat was cooked, or half water and half tomato, season to taste with salt and pepper and serve in the sauce boat with the meat. &nbsp;When baked or mashed potatoes or macaroni with cheese are served with it, one need not ask a better dinner. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Macaroni Milanese.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The macaroni as usual, or cold water through it and return to the kettle. Pour over it a cup of milk and reheat. Butter a pudding dish and put into it, in alternate layers, the macaroni and grated cheese, seasoning with a little more salt and a few grains of cayenne. Put plenty of bits of butter on top, cover with fresh, rich milk, cover and bake 15 or 20 minutes. &nbsp;Uncover and brown. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>Preserved Quinces.<o:p></o:p></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Do not try to preserve quinces until they begin to turn yellow. When ready to "put up," rub off the firm with a coarse towel, pare, core and quarter, dropping the pieces in cold water to prevent discoloration. Save cores and parings in a separate vessel to use in making jelly. Put two layers of the quince quarters in the preserving kettle, cover with cold water and cook over a slow fire until the fruit is tender. When done, skim out and lay on a platter to cool. Put in more quinces and repeat this process until all are cooked. Strain the water in which they were boiled, and to every point of juice allow three-quarters of a pound of sugar. Boil gently for 10 minutes, skim and add his many quinces as the sirup [sic] &nbsp;will cover. Boil about 30 minutes, or until the quinces turned a dark, rich red. Lift out with a silver spoon, and drop, piece by piece, into wide-mouthed glass jars that have been set in a basin of hot water to prevent breaking. When filled, that the sirup[sic] boil a little longer, then pour over the fruit until the juice runs down the side of the can. Seal. Sweet apples may be used with the quinces, using one-third quartered apples to two-thirds quince. Do not make the mistake of boiling quinces in the sirup[sic] before cooking or steaming them tender. Sugar hardens uncooked quinces. If you have any sirup[sic] left after the cans are filled, let it cook a little longer, then pour into small classes. This makes a delicious jelly.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Q<b>uinces With Cider and Molasses, Colonial Style.<o:p></o:p></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Pare and halve the quinces, removing the cords. Boil them in sweet cider in till tender, then strained through a sieve. For five pounds of quinces take a quart of molasses, a pound of brown sugar and the water in which the quinces were cooked. And the whites of two eggs, bring to a boil, remove from the fire and skim. Continue to boil and skim until perfectly clear, then take off the fire, cool, put in the quinces and cook until tender. If there is not sirup[sic] to cover them full and plenty, add more cider . Orange peel or a few slits of green ginger boiled in the sirup[sic] is a pleasant flavor. </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>Pumpkin Chips, a Colonial Sweetmeat.<o:p></o:p></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Select a good, sweet pumpkin (the old Connecticut field pumpkin is best), halve it, take out the scene constrained and cut as large a portion as you wish to preserve in chips about the size of a dollar [coin]. To each pound of the pumpkin allow a pound of fine white sugar and two tablespoonfuls of lemon juice. The chips in a deep dish and sprinkle each layer with sugar. Stir in the lemon juice over the whole. Let this remain for a day, then boil the whole together with a cup of water allowed to teach three pounds of pumpkin, a tablespoonful of ground ginger tied in bags and the shredded yellow peel of the lemons. As soon as the pumpkin is tender turned the whole into a stone crock and said it in a cool place for a week. At the end of that time for the sirup[sic] off the chips, boiled down to a six sirup[sic], then pour back and seal.</div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>Boiled Cider Time.<o:p></o:p></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; This is an old New England dessert the love of many. Allow to five tablespoonfuls of rich sirupy[sic], boiled down cider five tablespoonfuls of moist maple sugar and let it come to a boil. Beat two si eggs and pour the hot sirup[sic] over them, returning to the fire for two or three minutes but stirring all the time. And a half cup of seeded raisins and a half teaspoonful of grated nutmeg. Line a pie plate with a good crust, pour in the mixture, got the top with a few bits of butter, then cover with a top crust or not as preferred. If not top crust is used, meringue may be substituted. Beat the whites of two eggs in a stiff froth with two tablespoonfuls of sugar. As soon as the pie is baked and cool for about five minutes, spread the meringue over the top, then return to the oven, which should be cooled down to puff slowly and turn a golden brown. If the oven is still too hot when the high is ready to go in, leave the door open.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b>Cream of Pumpkin Soup.<o:p></o:p></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Slice a ripe, small pumpkin into pieces enough to fill a quart measure. Put into a saucepan with a kind of cold water, and season with a teaspoonful each of salt and sugar, a half teaspoonful of pepper and a few springs of parsley and sweet marjoram. Cover the pan and simmer gently for an hour and a half, stirring frequently. Strain through a colander to exclude the skin, and then through a finer since. Put the purrce back into the pan, sprinkle over it a heaping teaspoonful of flour and mix thoroughly. Pour over it, stirring all the time, a quart of hot milk. Add a tablespoonful of butter, and simmer 15 minutes. Then add a cup of rich cream and a teaspoonful of minced parsley. Heat, but do not allow it to boil. Serve hot with toasted crackers.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>EMMA PADDOCK TELFORD</b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><br /><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><!--[endif]--> <br /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 150%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">The Sunday Star. 11-08-1914. page(<span class="apple-converted-space"><b>&nbsp;</b></span>79). <span class="apple-converted-space"><b>&nbsp;</b></span>Washington (DC), District of Columbia</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Transcribed by John Peter Thompson, 2<sup>nd</sup>November 2014.</span></span></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 150%;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>Born 1851, Emma Paddock knew <a href="http://www.harriettubman.com/bennew3.html">Harriett Tubman well enough to write a tribute to her</a>. Emma Paddock Telford was the author of <i>Good Housekeeper's Cook Book</i> (1908 rev. 1914)&nbsp;</span></div></div></div><br /><br />John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-83395372810768516872014-11-01T08:51:00.000-04:002014-11-01T08:51:45.266-04:00Preparing for Thanksgiving 100 years ago - Shortcuts for Housekeepers, The Sunday Star, 1914, Washington, DC<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UD3NaolTTW8/VFTWV_nR67I/AAAAAAAAA4k/vSvtmSfKQQU/s1600/Getting%2BReady%2Bfor%2BThanksgiving%2BNov%2B8%2B1914%2BSunday%2BStar.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UD3NaolTTW8/VFTWV_nR67I/AAAAAAAAA4k/vSvtmSfKQQU/s1600/Getting%2BReady%2Bfor%2BThanksgiving%2BNov%2B8%2B1914%2BSunday%2BStar.jpg" height="400" width="246" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How to get ready for Thanksgiving - <br />Choosing a Turkey and Making Pumpkin pie<br />November 8, 1914, The Sunday Star, Washington, DC</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Neurochrome; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Short Cuts for Housekeepers<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><b>Preparing for Thanksgiving.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 36.0pt; line-height: 150%;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A</span></b><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> LITTLE thought and proper distribution of tasks will enable a woman single-handed to give the Thanksgiving dinner successfully. Washday should be omitted this week and Monday devoted to putting the pantry to rights, making a list of needed supplies, seeing that utensils, silver, salts, peppers and other equipment are polished and in order. The upstairs cleaning can be done for the week.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tuesday, the dining room and living room may receive a thorough cleaning. In the afternoon some of the cooking can be begun. Mince meat can be prepared, as it should stand to ripen before being made up into pies. Chopped prunes may be used in place of so many raisins. The beef should be cooked until perfectly tender and the stock in which it is cooked reduced to a jellylike consistency. Let the beef cool in the stock in which it has been cooked. When ready to use the mince meat add a little cider to moisten.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tuesday afternoon bread should be made, candies and other confections prepared, mayonnaise made if it is to be used, and soup stock boiled, to be cleared the next day.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="OLE_LINK1"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 16.0pt;">*<o:p></o:p></span></b></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 16.0pt;">**</span></b><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Wednesday should define nearly three-quarters of the dinner finished, leaving for Thursday only matters that cannot stand and wait. Pies and cranberry jelly should be made first. Vegetable dishes that allow for reheating can be prepared and disposed of in advance. These are just a few hints for getting through the work of preparation early.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When selecting a turkey look at the skin to see if it is moist and delicate, without bruises and discolorations. See if the feet are smooth and yellow, for an old fowl has coarse skin and hairs, while the feet and legs are dark, with hard scales. He'll of the turkey to be sure that it is having in proportion to its size; otherwise there will be a large proportion of bone. In a young turkey breastbone is pliable. Although the turkey may have been [cleaned] by the butcher, carefully wipe it inside and out with a cloth wrung from hot water. Lay it in water, as that will draw out the juices. Cut off the links below the joint, trimmed the next, leaving an inch or so of it to turn and fastened with a skewer. Wash the giblets in soda and water. Cut the outer skin of the gizzard with a sharp knife and peel off without breaking the inner sack. Throw away the inner part and lay the outer part in salted or soda water. There are many different kinds of dressings used in turkey, among which are sausage, chestnut, oyster, cracker, veal or breadcrumbs. Whatever kind you use, do not stuff turkey too full, as this will cause dressing to be soggy.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A pumpkin for pies should not be too large, as the fiber is not always fine in the largest ones. First, cut the pumpkin into pieces with a large mest or carving knife. The work will be easier if you have a board on which to cut the pumpkin, and drive the knife with the aid of a hatchet. Pare the pieces and cut into inch squares. If you have never tried steaming pumpkin for pies, do so. It quickly cooks the pumpkin and leaves it perfectly dry, smooth and easy to mash. If boiled, it must be boiled down, then drained. A watery pumpkin, or a stringy one will not make a good pie. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 16.0pt;">*<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%;">**<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">When making pumpkin pies, use plenty of eggs, fresh milk and enough cinnamon or spices to destroy the pumpkin flavor. A tiny tasting too strongly of pumpkin is not good. The following is a good recipe: One quart of, one cup of sugar, two eggs, two tablespoons of cornstarch, half a teaspoon each of cinnamon and allspice, one-fourth teaspoonful of cloves and one-fourth nutmeg. Stir altogether. Pick the seed end of the cloves off if you do not want your pies dark. Let two cups of sweet milk gets boiling hot, then pour it in the pumpkin, stirring well. This is enough for four pies. Line the pans with a good pie paste, filled with the pumpkin and bake with one crust. Pumpkin pie without crust is delicious. Prepare the pumpkin in the usual way, then butter the pie tins, and sprinkle granulated corn meal thinly over the tins, leaving no bare spots. Pour in the mixture and bake. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Cranberries should be washed, and covered with water and boiled until tender. Strain through a fine sieve, bring again to the boiling point and add a pound of sugar to each pint of juice. When this has dissolved, pour it into molds.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To make a crust for a cranberry pie, stir one–half cup of butter with three tablespoonfuls of sugar to a cream, and one whole egg and stir well: then stir in one and one-half cups of flour with one teaspoonful of baking powder. Press with the fingers on the tin until all covered and bake in a hot oven. When cold, put in your cranberry sauce, then whipped cream on top.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <!--[endif]--> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">The Sunday Star.;<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><b><span id="citDate"><nobr>Date:<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></nobr></span></b><nobr>11-08-1914;<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></nobr><b><span id="citIssue"><nobr>Page:<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></nobr></span></b><nobr>79;<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></nobr><b><span id="citIssue"><nobr> </nobr></span></b><nobr>Washington (DC), District of Columbia</nobr><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;">Transcribed by John Peter Thompson 1 November 2014.</span></div></div></div></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-86129971675553316562014-10-31T19:56:00.000-04:002014-10-31T19:56:31.865-04:00Halloween in Washington,DC 1890 - The Evening Star<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-v1rRW0M4nIA/VFQd7Db_jCI/AAAAAAAAA3w/OjRIR-swJt0/s1600/Halloween%2BEvening%2BStar%2BWashington%2BDC%2B1890.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>ALL HALLOWEEN<br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">How it is Celebrated by the Boys and Young Girls.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">TRICKS PLAYED UPON HOUSEHOLDERS AND PEDESTRIANS – HOW TO ASCERTAIN ONES FUTURE HUSBAND OR WIFE – HOW A MAIDEN CAN HAVE HER FORTUNE REVEALED TO FOR IN A STREAM.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tomorrow is All Saints' day and tonight being All Halloween the young folks will no doubt do their celebrating as usual.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;All Halloween is the evening preceding All Hallow day – – properly called All Saints' day. Hallow–tide is a comprehensive name for both days. There is scarcely any time more distinguished than this by the common people throughout the British Files. This is probably owing to the fact of November 1 having been one of the four great festivals of their pagan ancestors. It was formally celebrated by the immense bonfires in Wales, Ireland, the Scotch Highlands and even in England; in the latter place up to a very recent. And occasionally at the present time. The custom also prevails at present among the Welsh people who still practice superstitious rites for defining the future.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In Ireland particularly st1 November is regarded as the proper time to offer thanks for the realize fruits of the earth. The Irish in this regard call it La Mas Ubhal - that is, the day of the Apple fruit, and celebrated with seat of roasted apples mixed in – AL or milk. Chas. Graydon, the Irish poet, very aptly describes one favorite practice thus:</div><blockquote class="tr_bq" style="margin-left: .5in; tab-stops: 50.25pt;">These glowing nuts are emblems true<br />Of what in human life review:<br />The mismatched couple fret and fume,<br />And thus in strife themselves costume.<br />Or see the happy, happy pair.<br />Of generous love and truth sincere.<br />With mutual fondness whole they burn,<br />Still to each other totally turn:<br />Till life fears or deal being passed,<br /> Their mingled ashes rest at last.</blockquote><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rmK1Il78TGU/VFQfjyl6McI/AAAAAAAAA4M/XdLzx7ei2c0/s1600/Halloween%2BEvening%2BStar%2BWashington%2BDC%2B1890%2B2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rmK1Il78TGU/VFQfjyl6McI/AAAAAAAAA4M/XdLzx7ei2c0/s1600/Halloween%2BEvening%2BStar%2BWashington%2BDC%2B1890%2B2.jpg" height="400" width="42" /></a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Halloween has always been the occasion of an enjoyable time in Christian countries. The performance of spells by young people to discover their future partners for life has been one of the most popular usages, as well as fireside reveries, such as cracking nuts, dunking for apples and other enjoyments. It is the night when witches, evil spirits and other mischief making been our abroad on their midnight journeys, and when the fairies are supposed to hold their grand anniversary. The custom of celebrating Halloween's night is still kept up and the evil-spirited boys, as well as the fair maidens, take part in the celebration.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">THE SMALL BOYS FUN</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Whether witches, devils in other evil spirits go about on their baneful errands or not is probably a question of belief for those who study such things; but certainly if they do not the small boys take their place on earth, while the maidens take the places of the fairies and give parties and social gatherings for their friends. The mischievous boys were among the foremost of the merrymakers, but as boys will they generally carried [sic] their amusement so far as to make them objectionable. Bonfires was [six] the general order of the occasion when the city streets were not concreted and when large vacant lots were more numerous than they are now. When their material became exhausted and the fires could no longer be kept up the little demons turned their attention to their favorite pastime of the occasion, which was to annoy their neighbors in various ways, such as to tie the dead bodies of small animals on front doors, or ring doorbells and help persons answering the Bell with cabbages or some other objectionable article. Sometimes live animals were used, when dead ones were scarce, and it was not an unusual happening to be awakened after midnight by the helping dog that the boys had tied to the door bell.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">THE SHOWER OF FLOUR</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In these days the boys consider themselves as boys no longer, and they turned their attention to the social gatherings, while some of the older young men have gone back to some of the pranks that were formerly played by young America. Particularly does this apply to the throwing of flour about the street. During the past few years in the city this form of amusement has them lighted many parties of young men and cause merriment to persons on the street other than those who happen to fall victims [sic].</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the first place some preparation is made as a security against the police, and that is often done by turning the coat inside out and wearing a slouch hat turned in the same manner. There are some who do not care to risk this, and they used burnt cork on their faces. When once disguised in this manner each of the party takes a bag of flour and they start out to turn black into white, and before the night is over they generally succeed, even if they also succeed in getting in the lock-up. Colored persons are generally the victims selected, because the flower shows more plainly and with better affect on their faces, while a well-dressed white man would not get slighted should he in his travels meet the crowd that is out for a night's enjoyment.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">SERENADING PEDESTRIANS.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Some of the smaller boys seem to find enjoyment in serenading pedestrians with dead animals or soft vegetable matter, such as decayed apples, tomatoes and potatoes. The changing of signs from one place of business to another was also indulged in to a great extent, and on the morning of All Saints' day many persons, from outward appearances were unable to tell whether they were keeping a drugstore, a barbershop or a liquor saloon.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Another, and one of the most annoying, pranks of the boys was to take a shutter from a house and put it against the front door of the same house, or of one of the neighboring dwellings, and then ring the bell, so that the person who opened the door would either get the weight of that section of the house upon them or would be put to the trouble of removing the obstacles in order to close the door.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">BOPPING FOR APPLES</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; is probably one of the oldest customs in connection with the celebration and it still plays a part in the day festivities attending and All Halloween party. The apples, placed in a time of water, must all have stems, as it is by the stem alone that the apple is permitted to be taken from the water,</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A trick, amusing to all except one of the party, is played with two plates and the peculiar in doing requires it to be performed in a dark room. A basin of water, a piece of soap and a towel are also required at the ending. Two rooms are also needed. In one there must be no light, while in the other a dim light is all that is required. The fortuneteller takes his or her position in the room where the light is dimmed and the person who is anxious to learn something of their future partner goes into the other room. A plate is on a table in either room, the one in the dark room being black and over a gas jet or smeared with such from the stove pipe. The maneuvering of the fortuneteller has to be followed by the one who is endeavoring to peer into the future. The result is shown by a glance in the looking glass.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">NAMING CHESTNUTS</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; chestnuts are named and roasted, and the one that "pops" first is the name of the lucky or unlucky one, as the case may be.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At such gatherings it is customary for the host to bake a cake and have a gold ring placed in it. When refreshments are served the person doing the honors cup the cake and passes and about the table. The ring has to be in one of the slices, and the one who gets it, tradition has it, be the first in the party to wed.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">WHAT THE GIRLS DO.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There are many other interesting method of telling Fortune on such occasions and the final scene is done when the male members of the party have gone to their homes and the and the maidens prepare to their rooms. When the light is extinguished they are supposed to fold one of their garments and repeat the following:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; tab-stops: 50.25pt;">"Hallee'n night I go to bed,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; tab-stops: 50.25pt;">I put my petticoat under my head,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; tab-stops: 50.25pt;">To dream of the living and not of the dead,</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; tab-stops: 50.25pt;">And dream of the one who I am to wed."</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; tab-stops: 50.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sunday is All Souls' day, which, is a day set aside to commemorate all the faithful departed. It is a holiday that is observed in the Roman Catholic churches in this country, while in some other countries it is observed by other denominations, who remember the dead by strewing flowers on their grades. This service follows All Saints day, when festivities are held in honor of the saints and angels in heaven.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; tab-stops: 50.25pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </div><br /><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <!--[endif]--> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> <span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">The Evening Star.;<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><b><span id="citDate"><nobr>Date:<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></nobr></span></b><nobr>10-31-1890Washington (DC), District of Columbia</nobr><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 8.5pt;">Transcribed by John Peter Thompson, October 31, 2014.</span></div></div></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-82102153839489391762014-10-25T08:39:00.000-04:002014-10-25T08:39:32.224-04:00"Go ahead — and do not tarry" - Poetry from The Planters' Advocate, Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County Oct 26, 1853<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Go ahead — and do not tarry,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Nought [sic] is gained by standing still;</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">When though you at times miscarry,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Let not fears your bosom fill.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Search the causes of your errors,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Gather wisdom from the past,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">To the win give the terrorists,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">And you'll get ahead at last.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Go ahead — it useful doings</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Let your motto be "I'll try;"</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">He who ever is despairing,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Bankrupt hearts and hopes are nigh.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">What know you and wealth be strangers —</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Onward, upward be your aim, </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">And that those real or fancied dangers, </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Soon you'll put to flight or shame.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Go ahead — the world reforming,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">In civil, moral, freedom's name,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">All those forts and outposts storming,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Which your enemies they claim.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">You know bulwarks, take no quarter, </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Compromise no cherished right,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Freedoms treasure never barter,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Stand for them with all your might.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Go ahead, then Go ahead — don't defer it,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Lifes short span soon flips away;</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">If you to finish aught of merit,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">You must supply your task to-day.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Sent the ball in instant motion,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">To keep it going, strains each nerve,</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Nor doubt that ultimate promotion</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;">Will yield the laurels you deserve.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"> </div><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <!--[endif]--> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Planters' Advocate, Upper Marlboro, Maryland, October 26, 1853.</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Maryland State Archives. Planters' Advocate Collection. MSA SC 3415. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">msa_sc3415_scm3596-0031</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Transcribed by John Peter Thompson, October 25, 2014.</div></div></div><div><div id="ftn1"> </div></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-13139636214926698842014-10-25T07:41:00.000-04:002014-10-25T07:41:26.095-04:00Elections in Prince George's County Can be Contentious and Deadly in September 1820<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7pOxm7pRBb8/VEuLx1clFNI/AAAAAAAAA3c/YqUR-BCEljQ/s1600/Crauford%2BElections%2BDaily%2BNational%2BIntelligencer%2B09-26-1820.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7pOxm7pRBb8/VEuLx1clFNI/AAAAAAAAA3c/YqUR-BCEljQ/s1600/Crauford%2BElections%2BDaily%2BNational%2BIntelligencer%2B09-26-1820.jpg" height="221" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small; text-align: start;">Daily National Intelligencer; Date: 09-26-1820</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;The Electioneering contest is very warm in some of the counties in the state of Maryland; and the public meetings for discussing the merits of the candidates, and the political questions on which the election hinges, are frequent, and numerous Lee attended. Sometimes, as will happen when people are excited by the occasion, and a little heated by what they have drank [sic], quarrels ensue. One of these took place at a muster of Col. Crauford's regiment in Prince George's county {sic], last Thursday; when a person of the name of Richardson was killed by a kick or a blow from another man.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></div><br /><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <!--[endif]--> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 150%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Colonel David Crauford, III &nbsp;Kingston in Upper Marlboro, Maryland </span></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Kingston, or Sasscer's House, is a 1 1⁄2-story historic home located in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Marylands. It is believed to be the oldest building remaining in the town of Upper Marlboro and may have been built, at least in part, before 1730. Many alterations and additions made to it in the Victorian era, including "gingerbread" details typical of this era. The Craufurd family cemetery is located in the woods northwest of the house. Kingston was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</span></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left: .5in;"><a href="http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/019000/019100/019117/pdf/msa_se5_19117.pdf"><span style="font-size: x-small;">http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/stagsere/se1/se5/019000/019100/019117/pdf/msa_se5_19117.pdf</span></a></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Article transcribed from: Daily National Intelligencer; Date: 09-26-1820; Volume: 8; Issue: 2404; Page: [3]; Location: Washington (DC), District of Columbia by John Peter Thompson, October 25, 2014</span></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/habshaer/md/md0800/md0839/photos/083394pr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/pnp/habshaer/md/md0800/md0839/photos/083394pr.jpg" height="228" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><h2 style="color: #3366cc; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 15.5519990921021px; margin: 0px; padding: 10px 3px 5px 10px; text-align: center;">6. GENERAL VIEW PERSPECTIVE, FROM NORTH - Sasscer's House,Old Crain Highway Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, MD</h2><ul style="color: #333333; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 12.960000038147px; margin: 0px auto 5px 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.219199180603px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 10px 1px 0px;">Digital ID:&nbsp;<span style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal;">(None) hhh md0839.photos.083394p http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.md0839/photos.083394p</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.219199180603px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 10px 1px 0px;">Reproduction Number:&nbsp;<span style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal;">HABS MD,17-MARBU,7--6</span></li><li style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: bold; line-height: 13.219199180603px; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px 10px 1px 0px;">Repository:&nbsp;<span style="color: #555555; font-size: 10px; font-weight: normal;">Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print</span></li></ul></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoFootnoteText" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div></div></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-7731313916402077752014-10-08T16:44:00.000-04:002014-10-08T16:49:34.244-04:00Prince George's Philharmonic Interview with soloist Mariam Adam - Concert follows Beyond the Battle Symposium Oct 11 2014<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In partnership with the Beyond the Battle Symposium (see more below the interview with the evening's clarinet soloist from the Philharmonic's newsletter) our very own Prince George's Philharmonic will be offering the following program;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">&nbsp;Saturday, October 11, 2014 - 8:00 p.m.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Bowie Center for the Performing Arts, Bowie, MD&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Charles Ellis, conductor - Mariam Adam, clarinet</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Rossini &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Overture to Tancredi</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mozart &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Wagner &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Siegfried’s Rhine Journey from Götterdämmerung</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Rodgers &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Victory at Sea: Symphonic Scenario for Orchestra</span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Beethoven &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Wellington’s Victory</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A concert commemorating the War of 1812. Sponsored in part by the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Anacostia Trails Heritage Area, Inc.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.pgphilharmonic.org/">Single Ticket General Admission: $20, Seniors: $18, Age 18 and under free (ticket required). Single Tickets go on sale the night of the concert beginning at 7 pm, cash or check only. Tickets can be purchased in advance</a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #555555; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start;">MARIAM ADAM, clarinet</span></div><blockquote class="tr_bq"><br /></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mariam Adam, a native of Monterey, California is an internationally distinguished soloist and chamber musician. As one of the last students of legendary clarinetist, Rosario Mazzeo, she developed a colorful career on the west coast soloing with the Sacramento Symphony, Monterey County Symphony amongst others while still an undergraduate. Ms. Adam appeared as soloist with the Eastman Music Summer Festival, toured with Monterey Jazz Festival jazz ensembles (sometimes as the drummer) in Japan and North America, and received such awards such as the Hans Wildau Young Musicians Award, Sacramento Concerto Competition Winner, AFS Scholar, and Bank of America Artists Scholar before moving to the east coast for graduate studies at the Manhattan School of Music. She has since performed with Chamber Music Lincoln Center, Prussia Cove Festival in England, 92nd St. Y, Rockport Music Festival, Chenango Music Festival, Carmel Bach Festival, La Jolla Music Festival, Skaneateles Festival, Chamber Music Northwest as well as collaborations with such artists as Paquito D'Rivera and David Shifrin.&nbsp;</span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As a founding member of the internationally acclaimed, TransAtlantic Ensemble (Clar, Vn, Pno) she has performed in Europe and the U.S., performing a wide range of music including that of Imani Winds' Jeff Scott and Valerie Coleman. As a soloist she has been invited to give recitals in Spain, Switzerland, and London, and she continues to collaborate with several international pianists celebrating music from different regions of the world. </span>[<a href="http://www.allianceartistmanagement.com/artist.php?id=imaniwinds&amp;aview=bio&amp;bid=724">http://www.allianceartistmanagement.com/artist.php?id=imaniwinds&amp;aview=bio&amp;bid=724</a>]</blockquote><div><br /></div></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Interview from <i>Quarter Notes&nbsp;</i></span></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></i></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Quarter Notes:</span></i></b><b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">&nbsp;Thanks so much, Ms. Adam, for taking the time to talk to us today.&nbsp; We can hardly wait to play the wonderful Mozart Clarinet Concerto with you!&nbsp; Can you start out by telling us a little about your training and your current career? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Mariam Adam:</span></i></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">&nbsp; I grew up in the Monterey area in California, an area very rich in cultural events and potentials.&nbsp; I did my undergraduate work at University of the Pacific, and then entered the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.&nbsp; I was very fortunate to be one of the last students of Rosario Mazzeo, who was then retired from the Boston Symphony and living in California.&nbsp; After spending some time at the Aspen Music Festival, I headed for the East Coast and enrolled in the Manhattan School of Music.&nbsp; That was about the time that Imani Winds was forming and I’ve been part of that quintet ever since.&nbsp;&nbsp; It was also at that time that I knew that I would make my career as soloist and chamber musician rather than in a full orchestra.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">QN:</span></i></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">&nbsp; And how did you make the connection with the Prince George’s Philharmonic?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">MA: &nbsp;</span></i></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">The Imani Winds were playing in the Washington area a year or so ago, and Maestro Charles Ellis was in the audience.&nbsp; I think he liked what he heard, and he contacted me afterwards, and asked me to consider playing the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Prince George’s Philharmonic.&nbsp; I was delighted to accept the invitation!&nbsp;&nbsp; I enjoy coming to Washington – we’ve played at the Library of Congress, Wolf Trap, and other places, and we’ll be playing at the Kennedy Center next spring.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">QN: </span></i></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">And the Mozart Concerto?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">MA: </span></i></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">I love this concerto!&nbsp; I hadn’t played it for a few years, so I was happy to get reacquainted with it.&nbsp; I think that every true clarinetist has this concerto deep in his/her blood and bones, and it means more and more as one matures on the clarinet.&nbsp; The first and third movements are like Mozart’s operatic conversations, and the second movement is just too beautiful to be described.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">QN: </span></i></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">And we can hardly wait to play it with you!&nbsp; Do you have any other comments that might specially interest our audience and supporters?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">MA: </span></i></b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Well, I have to admit one rather amusing experience I had with the Mozart concerto.&nbsp; I played it when I was in high school, and entered a competition, at which I was to play it with piano rather than orchestra.&nbsp; I was then playing a B-flat clarinet, and had not yet performed on an A-clarinet.&nbsp; The concerto was written in A, and that was what the pianist was playing.&nbsp; For a moment before I realized what was happening, I was surprised by the dissonance, and marveled at Mozart’s modernity – but I was happily introduced to the A-clarinet, which I have fallen in love with.&nbsp; Now I play both the B-flat and the A clarinet.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">QN:</span></i></b><span style="line-height: 115%;"> A wonderful story!&nbsp; Thank you so much – we very much look forward to playing this marvelous concerto with you on October 11<sup>th</sup>!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;">BEYOND THE BATTLE SYMPOSIUM</b></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 12px;"><span style="font-family: 'times new roman', times, baskerville, georgia, serif;"><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />Bladensburg was more than a battlefield in the War of 1812.&nbsp; What kind of place was Bladensburg during this era?&nbsp; What was life like for its townspeople?&nbsp; How did Bladensburg's residents, white and black, native born and foreign, interact in a time of dramatic political, social and economic change?&nbsp; Find answers to these questions and more at the "Beyond the Battle: Bladensburg’s History in Context” symposium Saturday, October 11, 2014, 8:30am - 4:30pm at R. Lee Hornbake Library, University of Maryland, College Park.&nbsp; Registration is $15 per person and includes lunch.<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />&nbsp;<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />Register at&nbsp;</span><a href="http://marylandmilestones.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6adaeab50b9ffa45884d2ed6c&amp;id=3fdb5f9106&amp;e=c802f8784d" style="color: #6dc6dd; cursor: pointer; line-height: 17.0400009155273px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; line-height: 12px;">http://pgheritage.wordpress.com/beyond-the-battle-symposium/</span></a><br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" /><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />For more information please contact,&nbsp;</span><a href="http://marylandmilestones.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6adaeab50b9ffa45884d2ed6c&amp;id=74a0d56ecf&amp;e=c802f8784d" style="color: #6dc6dd; cursor: pointer; line-height: 17.0400009155273px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; line-height: 12px;">dmcelrat@umd.edu</span></a><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;or&nbsp;</span><a href="mailto:mike@arnoldandarnold.net" style="color: #6dc6dd; cursor: pointer; line-height: 17.0400009155273px; word-wrap: break-word;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 12px;">mike@arnoldandarnold.net</span></a><br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" /><span style="color: black;">&nbsp;<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />&nbsp;<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />Scholars, community researchers and artists will share their work on Bladensburg in the era of the War of 1812.&nbsp; Panel topics and speakers include:&nbsp;<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />&nbsp;<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />African Americans: Maya Davis, Mark Leone, Dennis Pogue<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />Archaeology: Richard Ervin, Donald Creveling, Noel Broadbent<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />Art and Interpretation: Peter Brice, Joanna Blake, Mark Hildebrand<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />Bladensburg in Detail: John Peter Thompson, Susan Pearl, Doug McElrath<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />Keynote Speaker: Alan Virta<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />&nbsp;<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />A reception&nbsp;&nbsp; will immediately follow the symposium at the new exhibit, Beyond the Batttle: Bladensburg Rediscovered, in the Hornbake Library Gallery.<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />&nbsp;<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />This event is sponsored by Prince George's Heritage, Inc. with support from the Anacostia Trails Heritage Area. &nbsp; Please visit our blog at&nbsp;</span><a href="http://marylandmilestones.us3.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6adaeab50b9ffa45884d2ed6c&amp;id=6bb951ec95&amp;e=c802f8784d" style="color: #6dc6dd; cursor: pointer; line-height: 17.0400009155273px; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black; line-height: 12px;">http://pgheritage.wordpress.com/</span></a><br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" /><span style="color: black;">Prince George's Heritage, Inc. is located at the Magruder House, 4703 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg, Md.&nbsp; 20710<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" />&nbsp;<br style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;" /><em style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;"><strong style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;">Following the symposium, the Prince George's Philharmonic will perform music of the War of 1812 era on Saturday, October 11, 2014 - 8:00pm at the&nbsp;</strong></em></span><em style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;"><strong style="line-height: 17.0400009155273px;"><a href="http://marylandmilestones.us3.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=6adaeab50b9ffa45884d2ed6c&amp;id=7b6e295321&amp;e=c802f8784d" style="color: #6dc6dd; 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color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; padding: 0px;"><br /></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-44604696051034119622014-10-06T19:53:00.000-04:002014-11-01T15:12:54.844-04:00Planters' Advocate - Upper Marlboro, Maryland October 4, 1854<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Selections from&nbsp;</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Planters' Advocate&nbsp;</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Upper Marlboro, Maryland&nbsp;</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 20pt;">October 4, 1854</span><a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/current%20project/Heritage%202013/Blog%20essays%202013%20BTB/Planters'%20Advocate%20Oct%204%201854.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><b><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">[1]</span></span></b></span></span></a></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">——————<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">The Platform Announced!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; There was a grand No Nothing demonstration in front of the City Hall, in Washington on Wednesday last, whereat, among others, this V</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">ESPASIAN</span><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">E</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">LLIS</span><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, Esq., made a speech, defining the doctrines of his party, which of course are authoritative, in view of the position he is shortly to fill. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "<i>Judge Ellis</i>, as the selected editor of the contemplated 'American Organ,' explained the principles which he intends to advocate, including opposition to the election of any man of foreign birth, or of an American Roman Catholic, to office. He was, he said, in favor of forever excluding men not born in this country from exercising the elective franchise, but, in deference to his friend, he would agree to fix the naturalization probation at 21 years. The meeting heartily endorsed his sentiments."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Tab Mr. Ellis formally represented Accomack County in the Virginia Legislature; subsequently he was appointed Judge of a Circuit Court in that State, and during Pres. Tyler's administration was sent aS cHARGE [SIC] to Nicaragua. He has always been considered a Democrat.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Shooting Case Near Bladensburg. —<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We are informed that on Saturday morning last two German from Washington, Christian and Henry Gantz, went on a gunning excursion near Bladensburg, where they trespassed upon the land of <a href="http://beyondthebattleofbladensburg.blogspot.com/2014/11/news-from-bladensburg-november-1-1854.html">E</a></span><a href="http://beyondthebattleofbladensburg.blogspot.com/2014/11/news-from-bladensburg-november-1-1854.html"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">DWARD</span><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> W. D</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">UVALL</span></a><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, Esq., by whom they were politely requested to leave; that they refused to do so, when he said something to the effect "that he would see if they could not be made to go," and turning towards his house, was deliberately shot in the left side by one of the intruders. They then marched off to Washington, where, in the afternoon, they were tracked to a larger[sic]-beer shop and arrested by officer G</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">EO</span><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">. W. N</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">EWMAN</span><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, a blatant morgue, an officer T</span><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">IMS</span><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">, of the city. The wound was considered exceedingly dangerous, and Mr. Duvall was considered hopeless. He was still alive on Monday. Washington rowdies are beginning to be great test to the contiguous portions of this and other counties.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">$300 Reward<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <b>R</b><b><span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">ANAWAY</span></b> from the subscriber, living near Upper Marlboro', Prince George's County, Maryland, on Monday, 28 August, 1854, Negro boy Alan who calls himself</div><div class="MsoNormal">ALLEN WEST</div><div class="MsoNormal">he is about 19 or 20 years of age; a bright mulatto: freckled face; straight hair; as a large scar on one of his wrists, caused by a cut; about 5 feet five or 6 inches in heighth.</div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He has relations living in the Washington City. He has also a brother belonging to Richard B. B. Chew, Esq., a sister belonging to Thomas Talbertt, Esq., and his father belongs to Col. William D. Bowie, and stays at his "Bellfield Farm." I have reason to believe he is endeavoring to pass himself off as a white boy.</div><div class="MsoNormal">I will give the above reward for his apprehension, if taken out of Prince George's County — &nbsp;&nbsp;or 180 Dollars, if taken in the said County — in either case he must be brought home, secured in jail, so that I get possession of him again. </div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; CHARLES CLAGETT.</div><div class="MsoNormal">September 13, 1854 - tf&nbsp; </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 150%;">"Gen. Cass Overheard."<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is said that G<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">EN. </span>C<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">ASS<a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/current%20project/Heritage%202013/Blog%20essays%202013%20BTB/Planters'%20Advocate%20Oct%204%201854.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></span>, and a late gathering in Michigan, made a speech, wherein he affirmed his delight at his residence was in a free state, and "he did not, and never had, like consisting of Southern slavery," and made other declarations indicating sympathy with ultra northern in them and not much in keeping with his former profession. This has given rise to much comment, and the Richmond Enquirer, the leading Democratic Journal of Virginia, and thus lets into the veteran general:</div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; G<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">EN. </span>C<span style="font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 150%;">ASS</span> might have moderated his language to suit the temper of his constituents, but it was scarcely allowable in him to sacrifice his principles even to the necessities of his position. At any rate he cannot expect the South to recollect only the brave words which he uttered in Washington, and to take for not the treacherous we can Tatian at Detroit. If his language be correctly given in the report of his speech, he has severed the last chord that bound him to the democracy of the South. Henceforth he must rank with Benton and Van Buren; as one who has insulted our feelings and betrayed our confidence. The weak attempt to serve two masters, to reconcile devotion to the Constitution with submission to abolitionism — an attempt to which he has persuaded by the suggestion of an undying ambition — has placed in with these illustrious apostates, in the <i>limbo</i>of lost and dishonored politicians.&nbsp;&nbsp; </div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Duration of the War</b>. — A letter in the National Intelligencer speaking of the European War says, that "the policy of the Emperor Nicholas will be to protract this war; for the expense of carrying it on by the Allies is enormous. The English journals say that the British Government have already paid £4,000,000,($20,000,000) for transportation alone, and everything for both armies has to be sent to them. One item that they are shipping from France, is ten thousand head of cattle. If the czar will only draw himself within his shell like a terrapin, and let them bang their bootless blows upon him, they will soon get tired of the unprofitable and inglorious contest."<a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/current%20project/Heritage%202013/Blog%20essays%202013%20BTB/Planters'%20Advocate%20Oct%204%201854.docx#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </div><br /><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><!--[endif]--> <br /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/current%20project/Heritage%202013/Blog%20essays%202013%20BTB/Planters'%20Advocate%20Oct%204%201854.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Maryland State Archives. Planter's Advocate Collection. MSA SC 3415. msa_sc3415_scm3597-0170</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Transcribed by John Peter Thompson. [October 6, 2014].</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/current%20project/Heritage%202013/Blog%20essays%202013%20BTB/Planters'%20Advocate%20Oct%204%201854.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> General, Governor, Senator, Secretary of State: https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/cass-lewis&nbsp; </div></div><div id="ftn3"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/current%20project/Heritage%202013/Blog%20essays%202013%20BTB/Planters'%20Advocate%20Oct%204%201854.docx#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>The Crimean War <span style="background: white; color: #545454; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">(October 1853–February 1856</span></div></div></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-18000147944173324812014-09-24T06:29:00.001-04:002014-09-24T06:29:39.721-04:00Bladensburg History Symposium, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday, October 11, 2014<span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">The Bladensburg History Symposium,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday, October 11, 2014, to be held at&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">the Hornbake Library, University of Maryland, College Park. The&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Symposium, highlighting Bladensburg in the period of the War of 1812,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">will feature panels on African Americans, Archaeology, and Art and&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Interpretation, as well as three presentations on historic Bladensburg&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">in detail, and a keynote address on the Great Road to Bladensburg. (I&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">am attaching to this e-mail a copy of the Symposium program.) The $15&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">registration fee will cover all sessions, coffee-break refreshments,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">lunch, and a reception and exhibit on "Bladensburg Rediscovered," also&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">at the Hornbake Library. Free parking will be available in the Regents&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Drive Parking Structure next to Hornbake.</span><br style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Registration must be received by Friday, October 3. You may register&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">for the Symposium on-line, by going to the website :</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><a class="parsedLink" href="http://groupspaces.com/PGH/item/662790" style="background-color: white; color: #888888; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://groupspaces.com/PGH/item/662790</a><br style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">You may register by U.S. mail by sending your information plus a check&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">for $15 (made out to Prince George's Heritage, Inc.) to Prince George's&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Heritage, 4703 Annapolis Road, Bladensburg, MD 20710. Registration fees&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">will be accepted at the door, but only if you have already&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">pre-registered by phone before October 3, by calling Mike Arnold at&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">301-908-5206.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">This Symposium is sponsored by Maryland Milestones/StarSpangled 200. On&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">the same evening, and also sponsored in part by Maryland&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Milestones/StarSpangled 200, a concert with special effects, and&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">commemorating the War of 1812, will be presented by the Prince George's&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Philharmonic. The concert will be held at the Bowie Center for the&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Performing Arts, 15200 Annapolis Road, Bowie, at 8:00 p.m., Saturday,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">October 11, and will include music from the period of the War of 1812,&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">as well as several selections illustrating the development of western&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">music since that time. Symposium registrants may purchase half-price&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">concert tickets at the Symposium.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><br /></span><br style="background-color: #fff9ee; color: #222222; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.5599994659424px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">We hope that you will circulate this information to members of your&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">organization. If you have any further questions, please feel free send me an email at ipetrus1 "at" verizon.net</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">. We hope to see you on October 11, both at the&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1a2a37; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Symposium and at the concert that evening!</span>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-84885075059331313782014-07-27T18:32:00.000-04:002014-07-27T18:32:43.632-04:00Benjamin Banneker, the Black Astronomer - The Planters' Advocate, Upper Marlborough 1856<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IwruzceuJ5Q/U9V8wkqt4VI/AAAAAAAAA3A/koY_No2mKeM/s1600/Banneker+1856+masthead+Planters'+Advocate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IwruzceuJ5Q/U9V8wkqt4VI/AAAAAAAAA3A/koY_No2mKeM/s1600/Banneker+1856+masthead+Planters'+Advocate.jpg" height="129" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Planters Advocate July 23, 1856<br />Banneker - Md State Archives</td></tr></tbody></table><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Selected Miscellany</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">From the Southern Literary Messenger.</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Bannaker </span></b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">[sic],<b> the Black Astronomer.</b></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> </span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 150%;">—<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The casual mention of this remarkable man—, in the volume entitled "Richmond in By–Gone Days," induced a literary friend to furnish the materials for an authentic notice of him.</div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Like all conspicuous men of humble origin, ancestry differs in different biographies. Two memorirs [sic] of him have been read before the Maryland Historical Society: one by Mr. Latrobe in 1845, the other by Mr. Norris in 1854. The former says, his father was a native African, and his mother a child of a native of Africa. But Mr. Norris, who derives his authority from a lady among whose ancestry Banneker and his progenitors lived, and who had possession of his manuscripts, states that his maternal grandmother Molly Welsh, a native of England, came to Maryland with a ship load of emigrants, then called redemptioners, and was sold to service for seven years, to pay the expenses of her emigration.— After her term of service expired, she bought a small farm, near the present site of Baltimore, for a mayor nominal price, and subsequently purchased from a slave ship, in Chesapeake Bay, to negro men. They both prove to be valuable servants. One of them, said to have been the son of an African King, a man of industry, integrity, find disposition and dignified manners, she liberated from slavery and afterwards married. His name was Bannaker, which she assumed.— They had four children. Mary, the oldest, married a native of Africa, who was baptized by the name of Robert Banneker. Their only son, Benjamin, the subject of this memoir, was born November 9th, 1731.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> His father, (according to Mr. Latrobe and to the record,) purchased from Robert Gist, on 10th March, 1737, for the consideration of 7000 lbs of Tobacco, a tract of 100 acres of land, called Stout, then almost in a wilderness, although within 10 miles of Baltimore, but 10 years previously Baltimore was the farm of John Hamming, and in 1740, the town was surrounded by a board fence as a protection against the Indians.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Benjamin's grandmother taught him to read and sent him to a small school near her residence. He was very studious and devoted his play–time to reading. After his minority, he continued to reside with his mother and occupied the same farm all his life, cultivating it industriously and living comfortably. The winter months, and all other time not occupied in farming, he devoted to study, and besides books of scientific character, he read such on general literature as he could borrow, and he occasionally directed his mind with mechanical projects. In this department is wooden clock— his only time-piece when completed— was his greatest achievement, and was made long before 1772. It was a correct time–keeper and justly considered a great curiosity, as the work of an untaught black man, who had, it was said, never seen o'clock and worked out his and pension from investigating the works of a watch.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In 1787, Mr. G. Ellicott lent him Mayer's Tables, Ferguson Astronomy and Leadbetter's Lunar Tables and some astronomical instruments, but was prevented at the time from giving him any instruction as to the use of them. Before they met, and the interval was brief, Banneker had instructed himself, and from this time the study of astronomy became the great and absorbing object of his life. He was unmarried, and the sole occupant of the log cabin on his farm. — By contracting his wants, he reduced his hours of labor, on which he depended for support, and increased his hours of study. "Is favorite time for study was night, when he could look out on the planets, the story he was reading, and whose laws he was gradually but surely watching." When not obliged to toil on his farm, he slept during the day and thus in the estimation of those who knew nothing of his celestial occupation, he lost his reputation for industry acquired in early life.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "Soon after he had obtained the astronomical books and instruments, and had turned his attention to the science they taught, he determined to compile and Almanac. Of the labor of the work few of those can form an idea who would at this day commence such a task, with all the assistance afforded by accurate tables and well digested rules." Banneker had no such aid and it is narrated as a well-known fact that he had commenced an advanced far in the preparation of logarithms necessary for his purpose, when he was furnished with a set of tables by Mr. G. Ellicott. About this time, he commenced the record of his calculations, which is still extant, and is deposited with the Historical Society for examination." He noticed some errors in Ferguson and in Leadbetter, "who would probably have looked incredulous if told that their works had been reviewed by an uneducated Negro in the then almost unknown valley of the Patapsco."</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The first Almanac which Banneker prepared for publication, was for the year 1792. By this time his acquirements had become known, and among those who took an interest in him was James McHenry, Esq.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> &nbsp;He wrote a letter to Goddard and and Angell, publishers of Almanacs in Baltimore, and it was probably the means of procuring the publication of Bannaker's first Almanacs. It contains a short account of the author, as the most appropriate preface that could be furnished to his work, and states that it had met the approbation of the most distinguished astronomers in America, particularly the celebrated Mr. Rittenhouse.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title="">[4]</a></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn4" name="_ftnref4" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Publishers asked the patronage and support of the public for the work, "not only for its intrinsic merits, but to draw modest merit from obscurity and controvert illiberal prejudice against the race." This almost solitary exception rather proves the rule.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bannaker was fifty-nine years old when he published his first Almanac, and had high respect shown to him by scientific men, as one whose colour did not exclude him from their class. In 1789, the commissions appointed to run the lines of the District of Columbia, then called the Federal territory, invited Banneker to accompany them, and they retained him till the service was performed. He used to say of them they were very civil gentlemen, who overlooked his complexion on account of his attainments, and invited him to be seated at their table; and honor which he thought fit to decline, and requested that a side-table might be provided for him. "He continued to calculate and publishes Almanacs until 1802, and the folio laid before the society, containing the calculations already copied, and the figures used by him in his work. The handwriting is very good and remarkably distinct having a practice look, although evidently that of an old man." [*This note appears in his MS. foloi. —"2nd April, 1795, sold to Butler, Edwards &amp; Kiddy, the right of one Almanac&nbsp;&nbsp; for 1786, for the sum of 80 dollars."]</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; "Bannaker was an acute observer; many, instances of this are to be seen in the record of his calculations, which he used occasionally as a common-place book. For example,' December 23, 1790, about 3 o'clock, A. M., I heard the sound and felt the shock like heavy thunder, but could not observe any cloud above the horizon. I therefore conclude it must be a great earthquake in some part of the globe. A similar conclusion was drawn by Pliny 1800, years before!' In April 1800, he writes, "the first great locus year that I can remember, — I was then about 17 years of age, when thousands of them came and were creeping up the trees and bushes. I then imagine they came to eat and destroy the fruit of the earth, and would occasion a famine in the land; I therefore began to kill and destroy them, but soon saw that my labor was vain. Again, in 1766, which is 17 years from their first appearance, they made a second and full as numerous; I then had more sense than to destroy them, knowing they were not so pernicious. Again, in the year 1783, which was 17 years from their second appearance to me, they made their third, and they may be 1800. So that, if I may venture to express it, their periodical return is 17 years; but they, like the comments, make but a short stay with us. The female has a sting in her tail as hard and as sharp as a thorn, with which she perforate the branches of trees and in the holes lay eggs. The branch soon dies and folds. Then the egg, by some occult cause, emerges a great depth into the earth and there continues for the space of 17 years. I like to forgot to inform, that if their lives are short, they are merry. — They begin to sing or make a noise from first they come out of the earth, till they die. The hinder most part rock off and it does not appear to be any pain to them, for they still continue on singing till they die." Our philosopher seems to have overlooked their change of coats soon after exhumation.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; When he had become engrossed in his studies, he endeavored to relieve himself from the cares of his farm and have more time for the former, by renting out the land, divided into small tenements. His tenants were not punctual, if he was urgent they grew insolent, until it last, saying that "it was better to die of hunger than of anger." He determined to sell his farm for an annuity. He made a calculation of the chances of his life, upon such data as he could obtain, and the Ellicott family bought the land on the terms he proposed. An annuity of £12, Maryland currency, or $331/4, with the privileges of residing on it during his life, which was of eight years longer duration than his estimate. He died in 1804, aged 71. </div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;On a very bright day, then he walked out to enjoy the air. He met an acquaintance to whom he complained of feeling unwell. They returned together to his cottage, where online down, he immediately became speechless and died soon afterwards.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; He is described as kind, generous, hospitable, humane, dignified and pleasing; abounding in information on the subjects of the day, the lighting in the society of visitors at his own house. — His dress was uniformly drab broadcloth, with broad brimmed hat. His complexion was not jet black but decidedly negro.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; He was constantly in correspondence with other mathematicians in this country, with whom there was an interchange of questions of difficult solution.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bannaker sent a copy of his first Almanac in MS. to Mr. Jefferson, then Sec. of State, with a letter in which he feelingly alludes to the degradation of his own people. In his reply, Mr. Jefferson says, "I have taken the liberty of sending your Almanacs to M. de Condorcet,<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn5" name="_ftnref5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[5]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>Secretary of the Academy of Sciences at Paris, and member of the Philanthropic Society, because I consider it a document to which your whole color has a right for their justification against the doubts that have been entertained of them." &nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </div><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <!--[endif]--> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Planters' Advocate. July 23, 1856. Ed. Thomas J. Turner. &nbsp;Upper Marlborough, Maryland. Maryland State Archives. Planter's Advocate Collection. MSA SC 3415.msa_sc3415_scm3599-0126</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Transcribed by John Peter Thompson July 27th, 2014.&nbsp; </div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">The 1856 Planters' Advocate spells the name Bannaker; tpday's spelling is Banneker.</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div></div><div id="ftn2"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Benjamin Banneker was a self-taught (1), free African-American tobacco farmer, whose brilliance in astronomy and mathematics garnered the attention of the most powerful white men in the new nation. With the approval of Thomas Jefferson,&nbsp; Andrew Ellicott&nbsp; enlisted Banneker to assist in surveying the territory which was to become the District of Columbia. After the survey’s completion Banneker would go on to engage in a correspondence with Jefferson about the equal abilities of men of African descent. http://www.mdhs.org/underbelly/2014/02/06/the-dreams-of-benjamin-banneker/ </div></div><div id="ftn3"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[3]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><b><span style="background: white; color: #252525; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 7.5pt;"> </span></b><span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">James McHenry was born at Ballymena, County Antrim, Ireland, in 1753. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">During the War for Independence, McHenry served as a military surgeon. Late in 1776, while he was on the staff of the 5th Pennsylvania Battalion, the British captured him at Fort Washington, NY. He was paroled early the next year and exchanged in March 1778. Returning immediately to duty, he was assigned to Valley Forge, PA, and in May became secretary to George Washington. About this time, McHenry apparently quit the practice of medicine to devote himself to politics and administration; he apparently never needed to return to it after the war because of his excellent financial circumstances. McHenry stayed on Washington's staff until 1780, when he joined that of the Marquis de Lafayette, and he remained in that assignment until he entered the Maryland Senate (1781-86). During part of this period, he served concurrently in the Continental Congress (1783-86). In 1784 he married Margaret Allison Caldwell.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">McHenry missed many of the proceedings at the Philadelphia convention, in part because of the illness of his brother, and played an insubstantial part in the debates when he was present. He did, however, maintain a private journal that has been useful to posterity. He campaigned strenuously for the Constitution in Maryland and attended the state ratifying convention.</span></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">From 1789 to 1791, McHenry sat in the state assembly and in the years 1791-96 again in the senate. A staunch Federalist, he then accepted Washington's offer of the post of Secretary of War and held it into the administration of John Adams. McHenry looked to Hamilton rather than to Adams for leadership. As time passed, the latter became increasingly dissatisfied with McHenry's performance and distrustful of his political motives and in 1800 forced him to resign. Subsequently, the Democratic-Republicans accused him of maladministration, but a congressional committee vindicated him.&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">McHenry returned to his estate near Baltimore and to semiretirement. He remained a loyal Federalist and opposed the War of 1812. He also held the office of president of a Bible society. He died in 1816 at the age of 62, survived by two of his three children. His grave is in Baltimore's Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525;">&nbsp;</span></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="background: white; color: #252525; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_founding_fathers_maryland.html<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div></div><div id="ftn4"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref4" name="_ftn4" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[4]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> David Rittenhouse was born the son of farmer Matthias Rittenhouse in Germantown, Pennsylvania. He married Eleanor Coulston, and then after her death, Hannah Jacobs. He became an astronomer, mathematician, instrument maker and one of the leading American scientists of the eighteenth century, second only to Benjamin Franklin.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Self-taught, he early showed mathematical and mechanical ability, and mastered Newton's Principia in an English translation. As a young boy Rittenhouse constructed a model of a watermill, and by the age of seventeen he had built a wooden clock, but having little opportunity to attend school, he largely educated himself from books and a box of tools inherited from his uncle David Williams, a furniture maker. At the age of nineteen he began making clocks and other mechanical and scientific devices.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Over the next thirty or forty years he made many highly-prized and innovative mathematical and astronomical instruments, most famous of which were two orreries he constructed for the Colleges of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania). These orreries show the solar and lunar eclipses and other phenomena for a period of 5,000 years either forward or backward. After moving to Philadelphia in 1770, Rittenhouse used both astronomical and terrestrial observations to survey canals and rivers and to establish the boundaries between many of the Mid-Atlantic States. He held the post of city surveyor of Philadelphia in 1774.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">His scientific thinking and experimentation earned Rittenhouse considerable intellectual prestige in America and in Europe. He built his own observatory at his father's farm in Norriton, outside of Philadelphia. Rittenhouse maintained detailed records of his observations and published a number of important works on astronomy, including a paper putting forth his solution for locating the place of a planet in its orbit. He was a leader in the scientific comunity's observance of the transit of Venus in 1769, which won him broad acclaim. He also sought to solve mathematical problems, publishing his first mathematical paper in 1792, an effort to determine the period of a pendulum. He also experimented with magnetism and electricity.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Rittenhouse was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1768, serving over the years as curator, librarian, secretary, vice president and, from 1791 to 1796, its president. He was elected to its committee to observe the transits of Venus and Mercury in 1769 based on plans he had made. Over the years he received a number of honorary degrees including those from the Colleges of New Jersey and Philadelphia. In addition he was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow of the Royal Society of London.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Rittenhouse used his scientific skills for practical purposes during the American Revolution. In 1775 he began his service on the Committee of Safety as an engineer supervising local casting of cannon, improvement of rifles, supply of ammunition and selection of sites for gunpowder mills and magazine stores. In the late 1770s Rittenhouse was a member of the Pennsylvania Assembly, the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention of 1776, and the Board of War. From 1779 to 1787 Rittenhouse was Treasurer of Pennsylvania, and from 1792 -1795 he served as Director of the United States Mint.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Rittenhouse was Penn's Professor of Astronomy at Philadelphia from 1779 to 1782 and Vice-Provost in 1780 and 1782. He also served Penn as a trustee of the University of the State of Pennsylvania (1779-1780 and 1782-1791) and then, after its 1791 union with the College of Philadelphia, as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania (1791-1796). http://www.archives.upenn.edu/people/1700s/rittenhouse_david.html <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div></div></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref5" name="_ftn5" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[5]</span></span></span></a> Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet &nbsp;17 September 1743 – 28 March 1794), known as Nicolas de Condorcet, was a French philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist whose Condorcet method in voting tally selects the candidate who would beat each of the other candidates in a run-off election. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he advocated a liberal economy, free and equal public education, constitutionalism, and equal rights for women and people of all races. His ideas and writings were said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism, and remain influential to this day. He died a mysterious death in prison after a period of flight from French Revolutionary authorities. from Wikipedia 2014.&nbsp;</div><div><div id="ftn4"> </div></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-63427715854020071812014-07-13T11:17:00.001-04:002014-07-13T11:17:10.867-04:00"Growth in Crime" The Politics of a Debate - July 14, 1858 - Planters' Advocate, Prince George's County, Maryland<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">For the Planters' Advocate</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">[Upper Marlborough, Prince George's County, Maryland]'</div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b>Growth of Crime.</b></h2><div class="MsoNormal">—</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Is beginning to increase so rapidly and cheerfully that, unless in some way arrested and subdued, public peace and security will be in danger to an alarming extent, if not already so. But before any effective remedy can be applied, the proper causes must be ascertained, and when ascertained, removed at once and effectively. The delinquency and insubordination now so prevalent doubtless have various causes for their origins and force, but among the many that might be mentioned, we think the following are among the chief causes:</div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; First, we would mention parental neglect, on account of which great criminality is resting upon the parent. Parents do not only neglect to train up their children properly, but they actually trained them wrong. They do not only neglect to instill into their minds proper and correct principles, but teach them wrong and pernicious ones. They train them up to insubordination, contempt for parental authority, and a disregard for parental love and affection. The home education of the present day is radically and criminally wrong, and until this evil is corrected and parents bring up their children correctly, teach them subordination, to love what is right and despise that which is wrong, to lay the foundation of a christian [sic] education, and, in fine, to discharge a parents [sic] duty and obligation faithfully and conscientiously, better things can hardly be hoped for.</div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Another source, is not our educational system is radically defective and should be thoroughly reformed. Much could be said on this point, because we do not think that the youth of the land receive that moral culture development, as well as intellectual, necessary to prepare them for the duties of the citizen, the christian [sic] and as a moral and intellectual being. We do not say that all our schools are thus so wretchedly defective, but some we are sure of. But our system of public schools should be so reformed and sent the youth may be thoroughly taught morally as well as intellectually. A christian [sic] education should be aimed at, and it should form the basis of all their attainment.</div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reformation in the public school system is much needed, and until we have better legislation, our youth will still receive a wrong education and be bad citizens, instead of good and useful. Another is intemperance. This is the most fruitful source of crime of all others, and should be removed at once. We anticipated a few years ago at the temperance cause would triumph, but our hopes are gone. Intemperance is on the increase, and what will be the condition of society on account of this abominable curse the present is a fair indication. Intemperance is the prime cause of nine-tenths of the evil which corrupt and ruined society. It ought to be removed and removed at once. We advocate a total, a final and an effectual removal of the cause which is so prolific in flooding the entire country with intemperance, crime, insubordination, disobedience to law, promotions of disorder and influence injurious to public morals, to public prosperity, and dangerous to public peace, security, the quiet of society and subversive of all good government, party spirit, too frequent popular elections, the speculation mania and idleness, are all injurious to public good. Brian will still continue to increase until the causes which produce it are effectually removed, offenders punished without favor or affection, and the supreme authority of the law upheld, maintained and respected. Public morals must be corrected by their causes being removed and offenders punished for their crimes before we can hope for, or expect the diminution of crime, and public peace and happiness prevail.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; W.<a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/articles/Blog/Growth%20of%20Crime%201858_07_14%20Planters'%20Advocate.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <!--[endif]--> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/articles/Blog/Growth%20of%20Crime%201858_07_14%20Planters'%20Advocate.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Maryland State Archives. <i>Growth of Crime</i>. The Planters' Advocate. July 14, 1858. {accessed from the web July 13, 2014 http://mdhistory.net/msa_sc3415/msa_sc3415_scm3601/pdf/msa_sc3415_scm3601-0119.pdf]</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Transcribed by John Peter Thompson</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Transcribed</div></div></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-58351140983943196892014-07-12T07:35:00.000-04:002014-07-12T07:37:41.216-04:00The "Battle" Raid on Beltsville - July 12, 1864Published in the Prince George's County Historical Society Newsletter - News &amp; Notes.<br /><br />Founded in 1952, this all-volunteer, non-profit organization works to fulfill its mission of preserving and promoting the County's long and diverse history through: Reproducing new and out-of-print historical materials; Collecting records, documents, photographs, and artifacts reflecting the County's social, economic and political history; Operating the Frederick S. DeMarr Library of County History; Providing educational opportunities through lectures, programs and tours; Recognizing and supporting individuals and organizations that are making significant contributions to the preservation of the County's rich multi-ethnic, multi-cultural heritage.<br /><br />There are many benefits to becoming a member of the Prince George's County Historical including a subscription to News and Notes, published by the Society. to join:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pghistory.org/join-us.php?st=Join-Us">http://www.pghistory.org/join-us.php?st=Join-Us</a><br /><br /><h2 style="text-align: center;"><b><br /></b><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Raid on Beltsville July 12th, 1864</span></b></span></h2><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 150 summers ago in Prince George's&nbsp; County, on July 12th, 1864, Confederate soldiers rode into Beltsville, Maryland, tore up the rail-line and burned railcars of the B&amp;O railroad before returning to Virginia. Commanded by Maryland-born Brigadier-General Bradley Johnson, the rebel cavalry was operating on the left of Jubal Early's invading Confederate Second Corps' attack on Washington, D. C.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The raid and resultant skirmishes between Federal and Confederate cavalry units took place between today's Beltsville and College Park. The military actions moved on a north-south axis west of the CSX railroad line, then operated by the B&amp;O, and were centered along US Route 1 formerly called the Baltimore-Washington Pike. To the west of the turnpike was the Paint branch, a stream that head south east through Maryland on its way to join the eastern branch of the Potomac river, the Anacostia. To the west of the pike, along the Paint branch, named for the red and blue clay that lines its course, big trees grew close together on the bank; low woodland stretched far back from the stream presenting a scenic wild aspect to the landscape (<i>The Rambler.</i> Sunday Star. November 1916).&nbsp;</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Most of the buildings mentioned in reports of the day are long gone including the home of Major. Geo. M. Emack, CSA (now a shopping center across US 1 from St. John's Church), Brown's White House Tavern (now a shopping center immediately south of USDA BARC), the rail depot or station in Beltsville; Dr. Montgomery Johns' house on Knox Ave. in College Park; and Mrs. McDaniel's house which served as a headquarters for federal operations in front of Fort Lincoln in Bladensburg, Maryland.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Official Record of the Civil War, Series I, Vol. XXXVII, provides a running account of the day's events which reflects the confusion of the moment that translates into uncertainty of describing exactly what happened when and where to readers today.&nbsp; At 7:50 a.m., Major-General Gillmore, USA, set up his "command near the old Bladensburg road" to coordinate Union defense from Fort Lincoln to Fort Bunker Hill.&nbsp; Two hours later, Major Fry, the provost-general, sent word that "the enemy's cavalry is trying to turn our right." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>The Daily Constitutional Union</i>, (2nd Edition July 12, 1864), reported that "enemy appears to have reached the line of the Washington branch railroad between 12 and 1 o'clock, today, shortly after the last train from Baltimore had passed to the city. The train which left Baltimore at 10 a.m., came through to within about 1 mile of Beltsville, when a number of men at work on the second track of the road came running towards it, giving the alarm that rebel cavalry, in some force had just been approaching towards Beltsville. After delay a 15 minutes, however, by sending ahead, information was received that it was our own cavalry else that had been seen, and the train again came on, and arrived here quarter of an hour behind time. By 1 o'clock, it was found that the telegraph wires were down between this city and Baltimore, which would seem to confirm the idea that the alarm at Beltsville was not entirely groundless."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By 1:30 p.m., Capt. Paddock, Post Commander Battery Jameson, Fort Lincoln, was informing Secretary of War Stanton that "a farmer just arrived bringing intelligence from the commanding officer of the outside pickets that the enemy was [sic] approaching in force in this direction. They are now about two miles this side of Beltsville, which is five miles northeast of here." At 2:00 p.p.,, from Mrs. McDaniel's house, Major Barney, [USA], "of Washington City, just from the front", [brought] a report from the officer commanding the cavalry [5th Michigan Cavalry] on the Baltimore pike that he had been driven in, and that the enemy are in force two miles this side of Beltsville making for railroad."<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"> <a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/current%20project/Petro/PGCHS/The%20Raid%20on%20Beltsville%20July%2012th.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></a></span> &nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A newspaper account 52 years later described the coming of the Union forces to the Brown farm to water and feed their horse. As the Federal soldiers commandeered supplies, the widowed Mrs. Brown saw a dust cloud and a large large numbers of horsemen approaching, and called for the Union commander to come upstairs and see for himself. He rounded up his troops and shot his way across the Paint branch to safety before the Confederate forces could surround him. One Union cavalryman was wounded when Major Emack's 1st Maryland, CSA, cavalry company charged the hurriedly regrouping Federal cavalry. The wounded soldier was sent to Major Emack's home across from the Episcopal Church, St. John's, less than two mile up the road. (<i>The Rambler. </i>Sunday Star, November 1916).<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/current%20project/Petro/PGCHS/The%20Raid%20on%20Beltsville%20July%2012th.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title="">[2]</a></span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/current%20project/Petro/PGCHS/The%20Raid%20on%20Beltsville%20July%2012th.docx#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><br /></span></span></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y7z4jnBK4V4/U8EcniSSPII/AAAAAAAAA2s/Ic_ckfP20Gw/s1600/Locust+Grove.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-y7z4jnBK4V4/U8EcniSSPII/AAAAAAAAA2s/Ic_ckfP20Gw/s1600/Locust+Grove.jpg" height="320" width="251" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Emack House - Locust Grove<br />image courtesy - DeMarr Library Historian<br />Prince George's County Historical Society</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In a telegraphed message to General Grant from Under Secretary of War, Charles A. Dana, the defense of Washington was described as consisting of many generals none of whom were in command. In this vein of multiple commanders, at 2:15, General Meigs was reporting from Fort Slocum that "500 cavalry, under Major Fry, was attacked four miles beyond Bladensburg, toward Baltimore, by the enemy in force, with artillery. He [Major Fry] is falling back toward Bladensburg, at which place ... he will need rations and forage, and also carbine and pistol ammunition, for 100 men who reported to him last evening unsupplied." The 17th Pennsylvania Cavalry, USA, sent word to Captain Paddock at Fort Lincoln that " a scouting party just returned report[ing] that they met a force of the enemy's cavalry with artillery about three miles above this place toward Beltsville."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By 3:00 p.m.,, Secretary Stanton was receiving information from the peripatetic B&amp;O ticket agent, G. S. Koonz, who explained how the railroad company's " ballast engine has just come in from Beltsville. Trainmen report that rebels in force were in sight when they left. Our forces ready to receive them. Rebels fired at engine, but it was out of range. Beltsville is twelve miles distant from Washington and is a station on our road." Twenty minutes later, the Secretary of War was updated by Major Fry of the situation at Fort Lincoln and points north:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">"A force of rebel cavalry has within the last few hours been engaged with about 300 of our cavalry, at the Baltimore pike where it crosses Paint Creek, about three miles beyond Bladensburg. The rebel force was accompanied by light artillery, which up to the time my informant left had fired about fifteen shots. My informant is one of our cavalry, just in, who was wounded in the skirmish. Our 300 cavalry were yielding their ground slowly. I should say it was an attempt to interrupt the railroad by a cavalry force. The skirmish is about two miles west of railroad. The line of rifle-pits from this fort westward is entirely unmanned. There is not a soldier on the line as far as I can see it, and but two companies of 100-days' men and a few convalescents in this fort. The pike is really open to a cavalry dash. I think troops should come to this part of the line is now seriously threatened. I have not seen General Gillmore. Perhaps he has made disposition. The line now is certainly weak in the extreme. I will go from here to Fort Saratoga, and try to see General Gillmore; but I suggest action from headquarters to strengthen this line at once. The convalescents here are not armed. Muskets and Ammunition should be sent at once."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">At 4:05 p.m., General Gillmore wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">"The enemy are [sic] just beyond Bladensburg. Fugitive citizens are coming in. I have carefully examined the line of works from Fort Bunker hill to Fort Lincoln. More troops should be on this part of the line. I saw eight brass field pieces in Fort Lincoln not in use. They ought to be put in position, I think, with men to man them. I am not in command of the line in my front by any orders from you or any one else." During the afternoon of the 12th, US Navy Admiral Goldsborough had been order to gather up office works and man the defensive works of Fort Lincoln in response to the perceived threat from Johnson's cavalry now apparently moving towards Bladensburg."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At some point in the afternoon, Dr. Montgomery Johns recounted the passing of the rebel units through what is now the University of Maryland campus. Johns, a Professor at the Agricultural College, later explained, in defense of his actions that day, that "the rebel stopped on the Turnpike in front of Rossburg (presently called the Rossborough Inn) 10 minutes, then proceeding toward Bladensburg, where met by (Union) skirmishers at 'Kenedy's Hill' and turned westward through the campus. Some of the Confederates stopped at the Johns' home and demanded food. Johns was taken to see the leader, Gen. Johnson, 'a distant Kinsman'. Altogether the troops, stated to 500 in number, were on the campus "about 45 minutes. (Pri. Geo.'s Historical Society News &amp; Notes, April 1974)'" During the foray, the Confederates burned the bridge over the Paint branch just north of the present entrance to the University of Maryland, College Park. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By 8:45 p.m., Mr. Koonz was again relaying information to Stanton. His account this time noted that he had been "as far as Bladensburg. Enemy has not shown himself between Washington and that point. At Bladensburg I was met by a Mr. Bowie, who seems to be acting as an aide. He advised me to proceed no farther, as enemy was [sic] about one mile and a half above. He estimates their force at about 1,500 cavalry and one battery of artillery. Our bridges across Paint Branch, two miles above Bladensburg, have been destroyed." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The last of the rebel cavalry left the area mid morning on July 13th. The next day the President of the B&amp;O railroad sent a message to Stanton noting that a "hand-car with some of our men, and an engine and car in charge of our agent at Washington, Mr. Koontz, have arrived in Baltimore within the last hour, communicating the information that the road is now clear of the enemy, and that the burning has been confined to twelve camp and other cars of the company, and the partial destruction of the cross-ties of one bridge." &nbsp;&nbsp;On July 14th that the damage done to the railroad in Beltsville did not amount to more than three cross-ties burned and some lumber placed across the tracks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Johnson-Gilmore raid ended in Beltsville. Some after-action reports indicate that some of the Confederate force had begun to head towards Upper Marlboro as part of the larger plan to free Confederate prisoners in St, Mary's County. The skirmish at Beltsville ended a rebel swing through Maryland that had taken Johnson's command from Frederick east to Baltimore. Led by the 1st Maryland Cavalry, CSA, they had burned bridges and obstructed rail-lines north of Baltimore, and had found time to burn the home of Maryland's Governor, Augustus Bradford. As they continued through central Maryland, the government of Maryland and the US military played a telegraphed guessing game as to the intent and goal of the fast-moving southern cavalry. The raid through Maryland was a part of a larger Confederate operation that planned to attack the Capital of the United States, Washington, D.C. The resulting battle fought along the Monocacy river slowed the invading army down long enough for the US Army to&nbsp;execute a defense of the city. The delayed assault of Early's Army on Fort Stephens (in Silver Spring near Georgia Avenue) failed on July 12th, and Early order Johnson's command to rejoin the 2nd Corps as it began its retreat to Virginia and the end of the rebellion 10 months later. Although we have let the buildings decay and disappear, the people and their fight continue to shape our landscapes today.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><!--[endif]--> <br /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/current%20project/Petro/PGCHS/The%20Raid%20on%20Beltsville%20July%2012th.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>Newspapers report that the Confederate forces, probably the 1st Maryland, engaged Major Belmont in command of a detachment of the 5th Michigan Cavalry. The Official Record includes mentions and reports of Major Darling and the 7th Michigan with no mention of his being driven back.</div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/current%20project/Petro/PGCHS/The%20Raid%20on%20Beltsville%20July%2012th.docx#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>The topography of the land along US Route 1 is such that the Emack House, Locust Grove would have been visible from the White House Tavern grounds. The land steps down towards the Paint branch in a series of gentle slopes. From the White House Tavern an observer would have easily seen the stream valley and the hills of Bladensburg beyond the College of Agriculture (University of Maryland, College Park). An informative view of the lay of the land is found from the observation deck of the 14th floor of the National Agricultural Library which sits on the ground where the Union cavalry was feeding and watering its horses when surprised by Emack's Company B.<br /><br />John Peter Thompson 2014</div></div></div><br /><br />John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-11729835673836943502014-07-04T13:31:00.002-04:002014-07-04T13:31:48.912-04:00Prince George's County Song from 1939The County Song<br /><br />Few residents, even the native variety, realize that Prince George's, County has an official song. With words by G. Frederick Orton of Hyattsville and music by William Moore, then editor of the Prince George's Post, Hail Prince Georges contains four stanzas and has a very pleasant melody.<br /><br />The song was adopted as the official song of the county in 1939, but was only "rediscovered" a year or so ago. The text is printed below. Any member who desires a copy of the music should write the Society at P.O. Box 14, Riverdale 20840.<br /><br />Hail! Prince Georges<br /><br />Prince Georges County, heart of old Maryland<br />Child of the Free State, long united both stand<br />Blazoned with glory, may your whole future be!<br />Bulwark of Tolerance, and true Liberty.<br /><br />Your beauty long has fed the tired souls of men<br />They have found rest in wooded hill and green glen<br />Blest with your soils and streams where food could be found<br />All that men needed in yourself did abound.<br /><br />Tired ships of old were kissed by welcoming shore;<br />Leaders of men came through your wide open door<br />Prince George’s forest helped: to build happy home<br />Sheltered in safety 'neath the blue starry dome.<br /><br />May your rich blessings on us all freely pour<br />On rich and poor alike till time is no more!<br />Hail, mighty County, pride of State of Land!<br />Prince Georges County, heart of old Maryland.<br /><br />(Copyright 1339, by Prince Georges Chamber of Commerce)<br /><br />News and Notes From THE PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY<br /><br />June 1975<br /><div><br /></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-87531470482669786822014-05-19T07:20:00.000-04:002014-05-20T06:36:16.541-04:00The Prince George's Philharmonic' Brilliant Concert 2013-2014 Season Ends with Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' and world premiere of Palmer's 'Beyond Space and Time'<div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;The final performance of the Prince George's Philharmonic 2013-2014 concert season took place on Saturday, May 17, 2014 in Dekelboum Hall at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, College Park, Maryland.&nbsp; The evening offered the audience a commanding performance of three masters of Western classical music, and a first hearing of an accomplished contemporary composer's work. Elizabeth Palmer's premiered orchestral work, <i>Beyond Space and Time</i>, held its own in the august canonic musical gathering. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The concert began, appropriately, with an overture built in large part on rhythmic pulses which set the stage for the three other works on the program. The orchestra played the Beethoven with technical mastery right to the whispered final notes, a performance that highlighted Ms. Palmer's beautiful tone poem, <i>Beyond Space and Time</i>. Her work with its shifting harmonies and pulsating crescendos was, in turn, reflected in the second movement of the Haydn Symphony, a symphony which itself was built upon shifting harmonies and rhythms that ebbed and flowed until the final resolution. Palmer's sense of timing and her control of harmonic devices allowed her to build on three centuries of compositional technique creating a sound very much her own while at the same time reflective of the classical musical traditions.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ms. Palmer, who has played the euphonium for 20 years, studied music technology at Susquehanna University, and then completed a master’s degree in music education at Towson University. During those years, she took courses in composition. She taught music for several years in Prince George’s County schools, and has been involved with mentoring young music students. For the past two years she has been studying for her doctorate at the University of Southern California which will include music education, theory and arts leadership.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Haydn Symphony completed the first half of the program. The usual listener's default position when hearing a major composition in symphonic form for the first time is the recall immediately the two 'exciting' outer movements. I fell for the two inner movements at last night's performance, especially the third movement with its sliding harmonic motif of the minuet and the beautiful bassoon solo in the trio section. The orchestra, with a few intonation struggles for a few seconds in the slow introduction of the Haydn, was in complete control of the music under the masterful direction of its conductor, Maestro Ellis. Mr. Ellis chose to fuse the orchestra section's sound (strings, woodwinds, brass, &amp;c.) rather than highlighting the sections as I have come to expect. This led to a very rich, velvety performance of the first half compositions and set the stage by way of contrast for the Stravinsky.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; How does one even begin to review the fabulous, stunning, extraordinary, masterful performance of the <i>Rite of Spring.</i>&nbsp;Speechless comes to mind.&nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The virtuoso rendition of Stravinsky's monumental score that still “seem[s] to violate all the most hallowed concepts of beauty, harmony, tone and expression" was inspiring.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Italian composer, Roman Vlad, continued his description of the daunting&nbsp;<i>Rite of Spring </i>explaining that "never<i>&nbsp;</i>had an audience heard anything so brutal, savage, aggressive and apparently chaotic" (Roman Vlad, 1967). &nbsp;&nbsp;Igor Stravinsky and Vaslav Nijinsky "collaborated in 1913 on the most shocking, ground breaking music and ballet the world had ever experienced and it may still be the most striking work ever done (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOBXph0hP4&amp;list=RDewOBXph0hP4%23t=1801">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOBXph0hP4&amp;list=RDewOBXph0hP4#t=1801</a>)." The Prince George's Philharmonic and its conductor, Mr. Ellis, rose to the occasion with their brilliant performance bringing the emotion of the music to the forefront and overcoming any preconceived reservations the audience may have had.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr. Ellis and the orchestra surpassed all expectations. Describing the music is tough. Paul Rosenfeld wrote early in the 20th century that it "pound[s] with the rhythm of engines, whirls and spirals like screws and fly-wheels, grinds and shrieks like laboring metal (Rosenfeld. <i>Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers</i>. 1920. p. 202)." To pull off a performance of the piece of music the conductor and the musicians must be as one, and must be at the top of their professional game.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mr. Ellis let loose opportunities for soloists and featured sectional performances in the nearly half-hour long performance. Mr. Ellis never lost touch with the musical pulses which propel the ballet forward in time and the musicians of the Prince George's Philharmonic rose to a pinnacle of performance; the audience rose to give a standing ovation that was most certainly deserved.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; How could you not have been here with us for this once-in-a-lifetime musical offering? It does not get better than this - I can hardly wait for next season's performances</div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">Charles Ellis, conductor</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3qbOTgEJOk">Beethoven&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Coriolan Overture, Op. 62</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;">Elizabeth Palmer&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Beyond Space and Time (World Premiere)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHbXJ-x9iRE">Haydn&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Symphony No. 86 in D Major</a> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewOBXph0hP4">Stravinsky&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Rite of Spring</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The 2014-2015 Prince George's Philharmonic season will lead off with a War of 1812 bicentennial commemorative concert in Bowie. </div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The program will feature Rossini's <i>Tancredi Overture</i>, Mozart's <i>Clarinet Concerto</i> in A major, K. 622, Wagner's Siegfried's<i> Rhine Journey</i>, Rodger's <i>Victory at Sea</i>, and Beethoven's <i>Wellington's Victory</i> Op. 91. </div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The musical evening will follow a daylong symposium, <i><a href="http://beyondthebattleofbladensburg.blogspot.com/">Beyond the Battle</a></i>, which will explore life in Bladensburg and Prince George's County in the years surrounding the Battle of Bladensburg which was fought in August of 1814. </div><br /><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Topics will cover African American Life, Archeology, Inns, Taverns, Spas and Mills, Music, Horticulture and Agriculture. The program will be held at the University campus in College Park.&nbsp;</div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-51080056006000680182014-04-26T14:08:00.002-04:002014-04-26T14:12:12.305-04:00Upper Marlboro, Md Post Office - the arrogance of apathy continuesWe are now told, continuing from yesterday's story (<a href="http://princegeorgian.blogspot.com/2014/04/upper-marlboro-post-office-arrogant.html">Friday, April 25, 2014 Upper Marlboro Post Office: arrogant apathetic looks of bored disinterest couched in layers of studied discourtesy</a>), that the Upper Marlboro resident who was given and signed for our package given to her by a postal worker took it home and threw it away - 150 + 50 international shipping postage worth of gifts from Mother and Grandmother neither of whom can afford this. &nbsp;Some of the gifts were hand made and of course beyond value, the gifts were presents for us from them.<br /><br />The story just gets more outrageous each time additional information comes our way.<br /><br />We want to thank the resident who "threw" away or is now enjoying our presents from far away for not having the decency to simply return the package to the post office when she return to claim her rightful package (ion other words she had to make a second trip anyway and now has two packages for the price of one). One wonders what kind of society we have become....besides uncaring, unconcerned, and compassionate.<br />John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-59671156855264865772014-04-25T19:10:00.002-04:002014-04-26T14:09:47.007-04:00Upper Marlboro Post Office: arrogant apathetic looks of bored disinterest couched in layers of studied discourtesy<div class="MsoNormal">Hi Upper Marlboro Neighbors;</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Since I moved here in 2004, I have been quietly fighting the postal service. I have tried to be polite about my damaged, shredded, ripped, stepped on letters and mailings sent to me in my capacity as Chair of the Historic Preservation Commission and former Trustee of the County Library System. I pay for a PO Box to send as much mail as I can, but the State and Federal government want to send documents that I rarely actually get to a physical address. &nbsp;I wait in vain for checks from clients.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I sort through my neighbors misdirected mail, and have tried many times to explain the problem while holding the evidence in my hands to the cavalier, arrogant staff at our post office, gritting my teeth as I listen to the explanations that suggest that somehow it is my fault that they misdelivered my neighbors mail.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Holiday packages sent from monks in Kentucky never arrive, and I am told that perhaps I ate the cheese inside and am lying about the non-delivery or that perhaps one of my neighbor's walked over and helped himself to the cheese.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Yesterday an attempt was made to deliver an international package - I was not home - and a notice was left to come to the post office today Thursday April 24th to get the package.&nbsp; Upon arrival at the post office, the postal employee explained it had been delivered already. The postal employee even had th audacity to suggest we go home and check and then come back the next day. Also, as with the cheese, they suggested that our neighbors appropriated our delivery. (we do not live in a sub divisions and I can assure everyone our neighbors are not stealthily stealing our mail). </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; After repeated attempts to point out not to our house - it was acknowledged that indeed it went to some different address than on the official address and was signed by someone not from our neighborhood - no further explanation was offered and the next person in line rudely decided we had tied up the unfortunate employee long enough. </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To make matters worse, it turns out it was not delivered to a wrong address but given by a clerk at the Post Office to a wrong person on a different route...this in spite of making us prove who we are every time we go to pick up a package - this rule must only apply to us.&nbsp; Please note the package came from Russia and was covered in Cyrillic writing&nbsp; (excepting of course our name and address which were and always are in the traditional western Roman alphabet) that the disinterested clerks could not spend the time to notice.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The worst part is the rude, uncaring accusatory manner in which their mistake is turned into our fault. This is what really burns me up.&nbsp; Not a single "We're sorry, we will see what we can do."&nbsp; </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Nothing; just arrogant apathetic looks of bored disinterest.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Today 24 hours later, no call from anyone at the post office; I went in person this morning having received an alternative version of what happened; called mid-day no information and was told yet another story this evening - the customer to whom they gave our international package threw it away.&nbsp; I suppose the Post Office in Upper Marlboro believes that the world is filled with idiots who believe concocted stories, though given the studied disinterested and a committed, dismissive attitude I suppose it possible that they gave our package to a&nbsp;complete stranger with no ID and that the stranger not having received their package simply chose to throw our away.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And, yes, after trying the understand not confrontational, extremely polite request,&nbsp; I tried filing a complaint a few years ago when the holiday package never arrived...a useless exercise in wasting my time; nothing happened. I have put up with this for almost ten years now. I have had enough. Whom exactly does the Postal Service serve? -Certainly not our street or community as I am finding out from my neighbors. </div><br /><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; So Upper Marlboro, do you have a postal story to share?<br /><br /><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><a href="http://princegeorgian.blogspot.com/2014/04/upper-marlboro-md-post-office-arrogance.html">Upper Marlboro, Md Post Office - the arrogance of apathy continues</a>&nbsp;</h3></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-33919451323603494882014-03-15T17:39:00.000-04:002014-03-15T18:29:39.229-04:0018th Century Historic Building Wall Collapses - Compton Bassett Catholic Chapel, March 15, 2014<div class="MsoNormal">Sometime during the night of March 14-15, 2014 the chimney wall of the historic Catholic colonial Chapel at Compton Bassett in Upper Marlboro collapsed.&nbsp; I have not been able to get there in person to assess the damage.&nbsp; The owner of the property has been repeatedly informed by its own staff that the tarpaulin thrown over to stop a roof leak was not a long term fix; and that, further, the tarp itself would eventually contribute to the destruction of the building. This collapse in all probability was preventable.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">The ubiquitous friend of those in a hurry, Wikipedia, states that:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">"Compton Bassett is a historic home in Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, that was constructed ca. 1783. It is a two-story brick Georgian house, covered with cream-colored stucco, on a high basement of gray stucco. A two-story wing was added in 1928. Remaining outbuildings include a chapel to the southeast, a meathouse to the southwest, and a dairy to the northwest. Also on the property is a family burial ground.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">The Hill family and descendents lived at this site from 1699 to 1900. Hills Bridge (700 meters to the southeast) has carried traffic over the Patuxent River here since a toll bridge was first constructed in 1852 by W.B. Hill. [3] Compton Bassett was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. In July 2010 the house and grounds were acquired by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning&nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/md/md0500/md0574/photos/083450pr.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pnp/habshaer/md/md0500/md0574/photos/083450pr.jpg" height="400" width="272" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Historic American Buildings Survey Delos H. Smith, Photographer 1<br />936 View from Northeast - Compton Bassett Chapel, Marlboro Pike (State Route 408), <br />Upper Marlboro, Prince George's County, MD</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-48902394437736291772014-03-06T21:00:00.000-05:002014-03-06T21:00:03.187-05:00Russia, Crimea and Ukraine making news in 1784 that matters to US today <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">&nbsp;</span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p><span style="line-height: 150%;">It is not nice to mess with&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 15px;">western</span><span style="line-height: 150%;">&nbsp;business interests if you are&nbsp;</span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 15px;">Russian. The&nbsp;informed&nbsp;citizens newly created country&nbsp;of the United States clearly understood what was to be gained by having a&nbsp;foothold&nbsp;in the Ukraine, and the Crimea.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 15px;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;">&nbsp;</span></span><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;">By the Ship </span></i><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 150%;">Ac</span></i><i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;">tive, Capt. Lyde, arrived at Boston 29 Days from London, we have the following fresh Advices, viz.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In consequence of the threat thrown out in the House of Common, of withholding the supplies, it is expected that his Majesty will determine on the truly patriotic measure of taking the opinion of the public at large, by calling a new Parliament, since it appears otherwise impossible to reconcile the present jarring interests.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The severe season in 1739, to which the present has been compared, blasted 15 weeks, from December 24 two April, and was succeeded by a fine spring, and the most plentiful harvest ever known in this country.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>Feb. 25</i>. The letter from Munich says, "never did the Palette and eight behold so cruelly calamity as that which they now experience. The inhabitants of Mann behind, expiring through inanition [sic], exhibit a most disastrous spectacles; the To a lector, reduced to the melancholy necessity of seeing his subjects parish, without a possibility of affording them the least relief. The Neckar and the Rhine, diluting the streets to the first stories of the houses, are too much frozen to be navigable, and not sufficiently so for passengers to venture over [] moreover, the enormous bodies of ice that float on these two rivers would soon think the boats that might be sent to the assistance of the unfortunate victims." <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>Feb. 27</i>. Two years salt provisions are ordered to be got ready for nova-Scotia; the people there being in great distress.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tXIsEGE033I/UxkmrnWutuI/AAAAAAAAA0c/UJ5RWApFLNA/s1600/1783+Crimea+and+Catherine+Treaty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tXIsEGE033I/UxkmrnWutuI/AAAAAAAAA0c/UJ5RWApFLNA/s1600/1783+Crimea+and+Catherine+Treaty.jpg" height="640" width="251" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">The Providence Gazette And Country Journal</span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">04-24-1784<br />News from Crimea 1784</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>&nbsp; By the late agreement which has taken place between the Turks and the Russians, the whole Crimea is seated to the latter in full sovereignty, and the free navigation so long contended for. This is the real downfall of the Ottoman empire, and not the war, which will infallibly take place in four or five years, when Russia has fortified that peninsula so as to have nothing to fear.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"><b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; By the late treaty, Russia gains the entire sovereignty of one of the finest countries in the world, in a climate happy as the South of France, producing almost every luxury, and all the necessaries of life, and situated so fortunately that it communicates with the Mediterranean seaas [sic] readily as this situated on it. The conquest of this territory, which the Russian Court intends to improve to the highest pitch, will be a fatal blow to the interest in trade of friends. A great import at Petersburgh [Capital of Imperial Russia] from that kingdom, is wines and brandies; these will be made in Crimea to equal any in the world, and that vast empire thus supply itself with those objects for which it has hitherto paid such large sums to France.</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 150%;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The climate, fertility, and population of the Crimea are such, that it will maintain an army of 60,000 men, without trespassing on the inhabitants; so great an accession of force has the Empress [Yekaterina Alexeevna or Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great] &nbsp;made by this piece; and, what is of yet more value, a decided and uninterrupted passage through the Hellespont to the Mediterranean, which will give a ready market to all sorts of productions, not only of the Crimea, but also of her old dominion of the Ukraine.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: black; font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 150%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <!--[endif]--> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> The Providence Gazette And Country Journal&nbsp; 04-24-1784.</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Transcribed by John Peter Thompson. March 6<sup>th</sup>, 2014.</div></div></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-23357221273999239302014-03-05T21:19:00.001-05:002014-03-05T21:19:43.203-05:00Ukraine in the News in America - Religious split - 1768<div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;A letter from Volhynia says, "The Bishop of the [Orthodox] Greeks has been massacred by the Peasants of tyhe Ulraine, for having given notice to the Governor of Pawalocz and Lieutenant of the designs of our Insurgents by which means they got out of there way. The Governor of Sinila flew off in his shirt, abandoning his wife and children to their fury, Gentry, Ecclesiasticks, United Greeks &amp;c. have all been murdered by those rebels, who spare neither women nor children. The rebels have already murdered many thousan Jews; they burn all their books and papers, destroy their habitations, and carry off their provisions. It is afforded, that the cause of these disorders, that the confederates of Bar threaten to murder those old Greeks unless they embrace the Roman Catholic religion.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></div><br /><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <!--[endif]--> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> The ESSEX GAZETTE; From Tuesday, October 11, to Tuesday, October 18, 1768; &nbsp;Salem, Massachusetts.</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Transcribed by John Peter Thompson. March 5, 2014.</div></div></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-88701818527176035962014-03-04T20:28:00.000-05:002014-03-04T20:28:03.999-05:00Western European Intrigue in Ukraine Reported in America - in 1750By Capt. <i>Ash </i>from <i>Dublin</i>, we ha ve the following Advices, <i>viz.</i><br /><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <i>Berlin, Aug. 30. </i>The Arrival and the Stay which the Tartarian Aga made at this Court, the Manner in which he was treated here, and his reserved Behaviour to the foreign ministers, whom (excepting those of France and Sweden) he never visited, occasion many Conjectures; and these appear to be the less improbable, when the Maxims of the Tartars are considered, being of a contrary Nature to the Pacific Policy of the reigning Sultan [Mahmud I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1730–1754)]. It is in short concluded, that the Mission of this Aga is a stroke of French Politicks, having engaged the Kan [Khan] to send and Officer to Berlin to concert with his Prussian Majesty [Frederick II King of Prussia (1740–1786)]and Invasion, on the Part of the Kan, into the Ukraine, in case the Porte rest quiet when Russia shall be attack'd, as in all likelihood it will, if a Judgment may be formed from the prudent Clauses which finish'd the Memorial that the Grand Vizir delivered to the Minister from Sweden. The Tartars would be glad of such an Opportunity to make Incursions into the Ukraine; but then her Imperial Majesty [Elizabeth Petrovna, Tsaritsa of Russia (1741–1762)]has now in that Country a faithful People, more numerous than the Tartars, and lately form'd to Arms; so that these last will not have the same Advantages as they have hereto for had. Attention should be had in all of this to the Use and Designs of sending, in so extraordinary a Manner, a Tartarian Minister to the Court of the King of Prussia, who has no Relation with the Kan of the Tartars.<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/Ukraine/The%20Pennsylvania%20Gazette%201750.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title="">[1]</a></span></span></span><a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/Ukraine/The%20Pennsylvania%20Gazette%201750.docx#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ewgdndzrfIc/UxZ9CcaHKpI/AAAAAAAAA0M/sEcVStt3d60/s1600/Penns+Gazette+Ukraine+1750.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ewgdndzrfIc/UxZ9CcaHKpI/AAAAAAAAA0M/sEcVStt3d60/s1600/Penns+Gazette+Ukraine+1750.jpg" height="640" width="491" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pennsylvania Gazette<br />Novmber 1750<br />European Intrigued and Ukraine</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></div><br /><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <!--[endif]--> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/John%20Peter/Desktop/Ukraine/The%20Pennsylvania%20Gazette%201750.docx#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> The Pennsylvania Gazette; 11-29-1750.</div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText">Transcribed by John Peter Thompson. March 4<sup>th</sup>, 2014.</div></div></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-42209135780290366342014-03-03T20:54:00.000-05:002014-03-03T20:54:04.091-05:00Crimea, Ukraine, and Russia still in American News - in 1736 <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fRSGnEg0xvU/UxUxiI4ZL9I/AAAAAAAAAz0/agY5IOIqL0c/s1600/Ukraine+1736.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fRSGnEg0xvU/UxUxiI4ZL9I/AAAAAAAAAz0/agY5IOIqL0c/s1600/Ukraine+1736.jpg" height="320" width="188" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ukraine in the News<br />The Boston Weekly News-Letter <br />1736<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Just in case you're not reading the newspapers permit me to bring you up to speed on events in Crimea, the Ukraine, Russia, and Europe as a whole - in February 1736 as reported in the Boston Weekly News-Letter.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Headlines of the day include a report from London on the wreck of the William of Hamburg Capt. by Cleaves worms which the English admiralty valiantly attempted to save from from plundering and looting from small fishing vessels - ineffectively it turns out. The ship's master, a man and a woman passenger were drowned, while the mate and seven seamen save themselves in the long boat.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The report continues from Petersburg, Russia as follows:&nbsp;</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">"That the Russian Court in order to give a stronger Proof than hitherto of their Resolution to keep a strict Correspondence with Sweden, has engaged to reimburse the Which the Late King Charles XII, Borrowed in Holland, during the Last War, and for Which He Mortgaged the Customs of Riga, One of the Concord Towns since Yielded to Russia by the Treaty of Nystadt. And the Condition of this Reimbursement is actually comprised in the Treaty renewed by the to Courts. These Letters added, that the Crim Tartars actually made an Incursion into the Ukraine, and committed great Disorders, but were repulsed with Loss by the Russian Troops."</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Crim Tartars are the invaders from Asia who settled in the Crimea and eventually became vassals to the Ottoman Sultan helping themselves to slave [Slavs] as a money making enterprise. Earlier accounts noted vast empty spaces, much like the American Great Plains, that were in need of settlers. In order to fill the great spaces of the Ukraine, a bounty was offered to anyone from the regions around Moscow who would go and settle these border regions.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a></div><br /><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /> <hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /> <!--[endif]--> <div id="ftn1"> <div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>&nbsp;T<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">he Boston Weekly News-Letter.;<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></span><span id="citDate"><nobr>Date:<span class="apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span></nobr></span><nobr>From Thursday February 5, to Thursday February 12, 1736</nobr>.</span><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Transcribed by John Peter Thompson. March 3, 2014.</span></div></div></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-48866112579342092012014-03-02T18:14:00.002-05:002014-03-03T20:54:30.376-05:00Ukraine in American News - in 1711 <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--Fx4YVgW4L0/UxO8U3lxfzI/AAAAAAAAAzU/SA0tjuRtwSs/s1600/July+1711.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--Fx4YVgW4L0/UxO8U3lxfzI/AAAAAAAAAzU/SA0tjuRtwSs/s1600/July+1711.jpg" height="214" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small; text-align: start;">The Boston News-Letter; From Monday August 13, to Monday August 20, 1711</span></td></tr></tbody></table>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br /><br />&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; With a little luck, Americans will turn down the hysterical news broadcasts, and take some time to learn a little history before jumping into conflicts that our sixth President strongly advised against. While researching early salve laws and colonial appropriation of indigenous peoples' lands here in Maryland and the other colonies, I ran across a newspaper article from Boston in the summer of 1711 - yes 1711 - before there even was a United States.<br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The article is the first of two describing the remnants of the Swedish King (yes Sweden was once a super-power capable of causing chaos) Charles XII's ill-fated invasion of Russia which ended badly for him near the present day Ukrainian border. His incursion brought trouble for the peoples of the region, and gave rise to several Western Ukrainian heroes, Mazepa, who famously deserted the Russian Army, and Orlick, who wrote the first Ukrainian Constitution. Some other players in today's news include the Tartars and the Turks, along with the usual western European powers: Poland, Austria and Prussia.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;We Americans should pay heed, then, to the words of John Qunicy Adams:</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">"Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her [the American] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she [the United States] <b>goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy</b>. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. She will recommend the general cause, by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example. <u>She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself, beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.</u> The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force. The frontlet upon her brows would no longer beam with the ineffable splendor of freedom and independence; but in its stead would soon be substituted an imperial diadem, flashing in false and tarnished lustre the murky radiance of dominion and power. She might become the dictatress of the world: she would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit."<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 150%;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[1]</span></a></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">With that said here is a transcription of a newsletter published in Boston in 1711 reporting on military events in and near the Ukraine.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;">"Dantzick, April 29, [1711] Advices from Caminieck confirm, that General Zacharouski's Detachment which consisted of 45 Companies of the Sieur Kaletynsky, thirty two of Monsieur Krosnowsky, and thirty of Monsieur Nerbowsky, were defeated by the Palatine of Kiow, who afterwards made himself Master of Kozowe, Buchalaw, Korsum, Lisowica, Lepusno, and Dolna, towns in the Ukraine.&nbsp; Forty thousand Janisaries &nbsp;[sic]are already past the Danube and are marching towards Kiow.&nbsp; There are thirty thousand Sphies at Bender, where the Turkish Army under the Command of the Grand Vizier is expected.&nbsp; The Han [Khan] of Tartary continues in the Muscovite [Russian] Ukraine, and frequent skirmishes happen betwixt his Troops and the Cossacks."<span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title="">[2]</a></span></span></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" title=""><!--[endif]--></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1630718&amp;t=w" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=1630718&amp;t=w" height="233" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">A new map of present Poland, Hungary, Walachia, Moldavia, Little Tartary, shewing their principal divisions, chief citie... &nbsp;[Hungary, Transylvania, Poland, &amp;c.]&nbsp;</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-align: left;">(1700) <br />-&nbsp;</span><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">The New York Public Library</strong></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 150%;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><br clear="all" /><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" /><!--[endif]--> <br /><div id="ftn1"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Adams, John Quincy. 1821. "An address, delivered at the request of the committee of arrangements for celebrating the anniversary of Independence, at the City of Washington on the Fourth of July 1821 upon the occasion of reading The Declaration of Independence." [accessed on the web, March 2, 2014 http://economicthinking.blogspot.com/2007/07/john-quincy-adams-july-4-speech.html] <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><br /></div></div><div id="ftn2"><div class="MsoFootnoteText"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=36414668#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Cambria&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">[2]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> The Boston News-Letter; From Monday August 13, to Monday August 20, 1711; &nbsp;&nbsp;Boston, Massachusetts</div></div></div><div><div id="ftn2"></div></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36414668.post-22340552951475724382014-02-26T16:10:00.001-05:002014-02-26T16:10:52.718-05:00Delegate Joseline Peña-Melnyk Sponsors Bill Requiring Healthy Drink Choices on Children’s Menus<div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;">For Immediate Release<br />February 26, 2014<br /><br />PRESS RELEASE<br /><br />Contact: Michelle García, Chief of Staff<br />O: 410.841.8302<br />Email: mgarcia@house.state.md.us</div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px; margin-bottom: 1.35em; text-align: center;"><strong><br />Delegate Joseline Peña-Melnyk Sponsors Bill</strong><br /><strong>Requiring Healthy Drink Choices on Children’s Menus</strong></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; line-height: 21.30000114440918px; margin-bottom: 1.35em;"><strong><br />Annapolis, MD.</strong>&nbsp;- To assist families in making healthier food selections when dining away from home, Delegate Joseline Peña-Melnyk (D, District 21, Prince George’s and Anne Arundel Counties) is sponsoring House Bill 1255 that will require food service facilities to offer only bottled water or milk as the beverage included in the price of a child’s meal. Other beverages will still be available at an extra cost.<br /><br />The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has found that over the past three decades, childhood obesity has more than tripled. During that same period, consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages by children has increased, to the point that they now consume more than twice as much soda per day than milk. Today, nearly one-third of our young people are either overweight or obese, making them high risks for serious health problems later in life. However, data shows that in those communities that have implemented policies to prevent obesity, the rate of obesity is declining dramatically.<br /><br />The United States Department of Agriculture, recognizing the public health implications of childhood obesity, has updated their standards to require that snacks and drinks sold in schools are healthy. This legislation will continue in that spirit.<br /><br />The bill is scheduled to be heard by the House Economic Matters Committee on March 7. The text of the bill is available on the General Assembly Web site, at http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/webmga. Just type in “HB1255,” in the “Find Legislation” box. The Delegate welcomes your opinions, in support or opposition of this bill. Please file them electronically at joseline.pena.melnyk@house.state.md.us. You may also call (410) 841-3502 for more information.</div><div><br /></div>John THOMPSONhttps://plus.google.com/117079064850644152472noreply@blogger.com0